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Prosecutors: Docs in boxes seized from Mar-a-Lago were inadvertently jumbled
Politico ^ | May 3, 2024 | Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney

Posted on 05/04/2024 6:08:23 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team acknowledged Friday that some evidence in the prosecution of former President Donald Trump for hoarding classified documents at his Florida home may not be in the same sequence FBI agents found it when they swept into the Mar-a-Lago compound with a search warrant in August 2022.

The concession from prosecutors in a court filing Friday afternoon came after attorneys for one of Trump’s co-defendants asked for a delay in the case because the defense lawyers were having trouble determining precisely where particular documents had come from in the 33 boxes the FBI seized almost two years ago.

In their filing, prosecutors acknowledged the government had previously — and incorrectly — told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the boxes remained “in their original, intact form as seized,” other than a decision to replace classified documents with placeholder sheets. That depiction, the prosecutors conceded, is “inconsistent” with their current understanding that some of the documents are not now in the same order as they appear in digital scans of the records that were made in the fall of 2022 after Cannon ordered an unusual process to review whether the FBI may have seized legally privileged records.

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KEYWORDS: 202208; classified; classifieddocuments; documents; doj; evidence; executiveprivilege; fbiraid; incompetence; jumbleddocuments; jumbledevidence; lawfare; maralago; maralagoraid; necktiepartyforjerk; tampering; trump
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To: McGavin999; Liz; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; LS

My suspicion as well. If the order of each document no longer matches the original scanned list, then what has been added and what has been removed? What was added or inserted into the original boxes sent south by NARA? Who did that original inventory, and how accurate wad that inventory?


41 posted on 05/04/2024 7:07:21 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: MMusson

What did they plant?


42 posted on 05/04/2024 7:08:45 AM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Whatever you touch, see, hear, smell, or taste, if you're Donald Trump or any of the deplorables the state fears, is most likely a manufactured trap to destroy you with.

Nothing is organic, true, or spontaneous. Your entire world is one big sabotage effort. The scripts for the media and press are outlined months before you even approach the traps.

43 posted on 05/04/2024 7:09:10 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Texas resident

We don’t know what they planted because it is all classified. : )


44 posted on 05/04/2024 7:09:56 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Throw. This. Case. OUT!


45 posted on 05/04/2024 7:11:15 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Agreed, except I don’t believe such a ruling can/will come from this judge.

It doesn’t fit ‘the plan’, but the curious timing of this revelation smacks of intent.

I’m highly suspicious.


46 posted on 05/04/2024 7:11:43 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MrRelevant

I agree...How did this even get caught...it’s called “due diligence” on the part of the defense.


47 posted on 05/04/2024 7:12:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MMusson

What did they introduce??


48 posted on 05/04/2024 7:13:12 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So when does the Junta impose plan D?


49 posted on 05/04/2024 7:15:52 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

FBI may have seized legally privileged records.

DUH it’s how frame up work and this is one of them with Biden’s finger prints all over it.


50 posted on 05/04/2024 7:15:57 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MrRelevant
Judge is biding her time. This case is toast. She is allowing the prosecution to embarrass themselves further.

I hope you're right, but sadly, I doubt it. Kangaroo Courts don't often rule in favor of the accused.

51 posted on 05/04/2024 7:25:31 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Evidence tampering should be a cause for dismissal.


52 posted on 05/04/2024 7:26:03 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Hattie

“No doubt planting evidence; lying to judge and defense team”.

BINGO!


53 posted on 05/04/2024 7:31:36 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Qwapisking

FBI = FIB


54 posted on 05/04/2024 7:33:15 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Judge Bean

“Chain of evidence is completely destroyed.”

indeed ... and i had been wondering if chain of custody ever existed in the first place ... lawyers for the defendants should demand extensive step-by-step documention, including all who accessed the documents, when, and what each and every individual did with said accessed documents ... if what the prosecution presents is insufficient or actually counters the known facts of the situation, the defendants should demand that the case be thrown out ...


55 posted on 05/04/2024 7:40:21 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Not the same thing...much worse.


56 posted on 05/04/2024 7:43:01 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: ptsal

This “evidence” was tampered with prior to it being shipped to Mar A Lago. That has already been established.
There is no case, there is no evidence, this is TDS at it’s peak.


57 posted on 05/04/2024 7:43:27 AM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Hillary fileserver Part II


58 posted on 05/04/2024 7:44:15 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“I believe the charges are basically mishandling classified information. The others especially Brandon and Hillary blatantly did this, but were never charged.”

There has to be a reason for this.


59 posted on 05/04/2024 7:45:19 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Fireone; bitt; Liz

Imagine a family tree of fingerprints or DNA analysis of the files might reveal. Then correlate the “prints” with the organization chart in DC. How many people of high standing in a variety of government jobs have their paw prints on these documents.

Just curious.


60 posted on 05/04/2024 7:53:18 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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