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Jack Smith Exposes Trump’s “Frivolous” Defense in New Filing

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There has been legal drama surrounding the alleged handling of classified documents during former president Donald Trump’s tenure. A federal court in Florida charged Trump with illegal hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. 

The former president faces dozens of felony counts in court. But his legal issues keep mounting as prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office criticized his defense team. They accused Trump’s defense attorneys of creating a false narrative of how the investigation began.

They stated that his attorneys were presenting an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” and attempting to unfairly “cast a cloud of suspicion” over government officials executing their duties.

The comments were filed in response to Trump’s request for discovery. Trump’s defense attorneys had compelled prosecutors to hand over documents retrieved from the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago residence. 

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The documents were being sought as evidence to support the defense’s claims of bias and misconduct on the part of the prosecution. But Smith has argued that the discovery request had no legal relevance to the defense case.

“Put simply,” the prosecutors added, “The Government here confronted an extraordinary situation: a former President engaging in calculated and persistent obstruction of the collection of Presidential records, which, as a matter of law, belong to the United States for the benefit of history and posterity, and, as a matter of fact, here included a trove of highly classified documents containing some of the nation’s most sensitive information. The law required that those documents be collected.”

In their motion, the prosecutors emphasized that discovery requests should be grounded in specific demands directly relevant to the case. The request should also be essential for the defense’s preparation. They argued that Trump’s team sought records “based on speculative, unsupported, and false theories of political bias and animus.”

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The essence of a discovery request is simple. It ensures that parties in a legal dispute have access to relevant information and evidence for a fair trial. However, when requests are based on speculations or irrelevance to the case, it can affect the legal process and undermine the pursuit of justice.

“The defendants rely on a pervasively false narrative of the investigation’s origins,” the prosecutors wrote. “Their apparent aim is to cast a cloud of suspicion over responsible actions by government officials diligently doing their jobs. The defendants’ insinuations have scant factual or legal relevance to their discovery requests, but they should not stand uncorrected.”

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According to a former U.S. prosecutor, Bennett Gershman, a defense with weak cases always attacks prosecutors. In this case, Trump’s attorneys claim that the prosecution withheld evidence showing that he had security clearance permitting him to retain documents at Mar-a-Lago. But Gershman believes that the attack on prosecution is used as a delay tactic by Trump’s attorneys.

“He wants to run out the clock before the election and then, if elected, a scheme to have the charges dismissed,” Gershman said. “Delays in discovery and claims of prosecution overreach, which Trump’s defense is orchestrating, seek to accomplish his objective.”

The trial has been set for May 20. However, it may be postponed due to procedural considerations or unforeseen circumstances.

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