Posted on 08/05/2023 12:02:29 PM PDT by george76
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team admitted in a Monday court filing that his staff did not turn over all evidence to former President Donald Trump’s legal team, despite previously claiming that they had.
Smith has brought a total of 40 counts against Trump, accusing him of unlawfully retaining classified documents after leaving office and lying to the government about handing over all documents.
On July 27, Smith’s team filed a “superseding indictment” which further accused Trump of instructing his security staff to delete security tapes from his Mar-a-Lago resort only a couple of months before the FBI raided the Florida residence, Newsweek reported.
Others named in the indictment include Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira and Trump aide Waltine “Walt” Nauta.
According to prosecutors, it was De Oliveira who told a Mar-a-Lago employee that “the boss” wanted a security server erased.
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Now, it appears that Smith is the one withholding security footage.
In a July 31 court filing, Smith’s team admitted that they failed to upload video footage taken from Mar-a-Lago to an online platform where Trump’s defense team could review it, as required by law, according to Newsweek.
“On July 27, as part of the preparation for the superseding indictment coming later that day and the discovery production for Defendant De Oliveira, the Government learned that this footage had not been processed and uploaded to the platform established for the defense to view the subpoenaed footage,” read the filing.
The Government’s representation at the July 18 hearing that all surveillance footage the Government had obtained pre-indictment had been produced was therefore incorrect.”
The Brady rule is a legal standard that requires the prosecution to provide the defense with any exculpatory information that will be brought against them in court.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
Honest mistake. Let’s proceed with the lynching.
Flush this turd of a banana republic.
Judge: “That’s okay, we all make mistakes. Still on for dinner and drinks tonight?”
Well whack him on the pee pee with a samurai sword.
“Lyin’ Jack” Smith is on the case!
“made an incorrect representation”?
“Lied” more direct ...
Or as Barbara Boxer would have put it on the Senate floor: "Smith’s team confessed that they failed to upload video footage..."
If this was in a court filing Monday, why are we reading about it days later in Newsweek? Why haven’t all our conservative legal scholars been on this all week? It sounds like a limited hang-out, there must be a lot more.
those were his private tapes...trump had the right to deliberate everything. this was NOT like the Nixon tapes.
The more I read about Smith, the more he seems very mentally unhinged and on a serious witch hunt outside the law.
my guess.....cut and paste
Do they lied. Hope the judge is offended and tossed the case
This won’t be the last stunt that Smith pulls in trying to take out the 45th President.
This joker is just getting started.
FRPOST——8/4/2023, 3:02:07 PM
Special Counsel Jack Smith May Not Have Reviewed Records
Before Indicting Trump”: ‘The records are absolutely exculpatory.’
FTA-—In an Aug. 2 email to Kerik atty Parlatore, reviewed by CBS News, a special counsel’s office prosecutor requested “responsive documents as to which the Trump campaign is no longer asserting a privilege,” referring to the Kerik records Parlatore said he previously provided.
Parlatore said he was “stunned,” b/c after the indictment came down, the prosecutor was asking for records he said he had already provided.
Parlatore said these “records are absolutely exculpatory. They bear directly on the essential element of whether Rudy Giuliani, and therefore Donald Trump, knew that their claims of election fraud were false,” Parlatore said.
“Good- faith reliance upon claims of fraud, even if they later turn out to be false, is very different from pushing fraud claims that you know to be false at the time.”
Oh Jack’s record shows he’s a piece of work
Our superiors use this time to socialize. Consider bibes..consider if they are going to buy coastal property ..And just have an all around good time.
Witch hunt, yes, but he's not "unhinged". He's quite rationally following his orders to destroy Trump by any means necessary.
But they indicted Trump for allegedly not listing everything.
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