Posted on 04/24/2024 2:43:11 AM PDT by Libloather
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday implored the judge in charge of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case not to force the government into complying with defense discovery motions.
In January, attorneys for the 45th president accused Smith and his office of myriad discovery violations in a rambling defense filing that also asserted that the genesis of the federal Florida case could be traced to “politically motivated operatives” within President Joe Biden’s administration who launched a “crusade” against their client to hamstring his chances in the 2024 presidential election.
In the government’s response in opposition, Smith aims to methodically pick apart each theory floated by the defense — while trying to convince U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the alleged discovery violations are not only misplaced but irrelevant to the case.
“The defendants have received substantial, timely, and thorough discovery in this case,” the government’s response begins. “By early September 2023, the Government had provided the defendants with over 1.28 million pages of unclassified discovery and all of the CCTV footage obtained in the investigation; since then, the Government has supplemented its production as necessary. This production not only complies with the Government’s constitutional and rule-based discovery obligations; it goes far beyond.”
Trump, for his part, claims the prosecution has been withholding “exculpatory evidence in the hands of the senior officials” at multiple federal agencies including the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Energy, the National Security Agency, and the Department of State.
In their motion to compel discovery, the defense accused those unnamed officials of being engaged in a “lawless mission” to gin up charges against Trump over the retention of the documents in question — with a particular amount of disdain leveled at the intelligence community’s...
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“Jack Smith”
Right. Remember his face. Say hi if you see him.
Remember when the accused used to be able to defend themselves?
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