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Trump Whodunnit: Prosecutors admit key evidence in document case has been tampered with
Just the News ^ | May 3, 2024 | John Solomon

Posted on 05/03/2024 7:40:56 PM PDT by chickenlips

In a stunning admission, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team is admitting that key evidence in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents criminal case was altered or manipulated since it was seized by the FBI, and that prosecutors misled the court about it for a period of time.

Legal experts told Just the News the revelation could prove to be a serious problem for prosecutors and a violation of court rules to preserve evidence in the state it was seized.

In a new filing Friday, Smith’s team said that the order of documents in some of the boxes of memos that were seized by the FBI from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was altered or jumbled, leaving two different chronologies: one that was digitally scanned and another the physical order in the boxes.

“Since the boxes were seized and stored, appropriate personnel have had access to the boxes for several reasons, including to comply with orders issued by this Court in the civil proceedings noted above, for investigative purposes, and to facilitate the defendants' review of the boxes,” Smith’s team wrote in a new court filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.

“There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans,” the prosecutors wrote.

Smith’s team in a footnote also conceded it had misled the court about the problem by previously declaring that the evidence had remained in the exact state it had been seized.

“The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,” the footnote said.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: documents; smith; trump
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good points. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The judge in this case seems to be good compared to the partisan judges in the other cases.


41 posted on 05/04/2024 12:55:39 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: chickenlips

but the gubmint is allowed to LIE and Make chit up,

Supreme Court, Qualified Immunity, Created out of THIN AIR


42 posted on 05/04/2024 4:27:21 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; Flaming Conservative

you like me !! you really really like me !!!

but Flaming Conservative beat me to it.


43 posted on 05/04/2024 6:30:28 PM PDT by stylin19a (Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe)
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