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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First thing they did was to establish a perimeter and exclude Trump's lawyers from the premises. Internal surveillance cameras were ordered to be shut off.
This was to assure there would be no witnesses.
Their very first act was to cover their tracks. Now, do you still believe their tampering was "inadvertent"?
BTTT
Had told my mother, incorrectly, that I had not ate the cookie, what’s the big deal when she later learned that I did eat the cookie?
Amazing, the things I could have gotten away with had I been this clever?
What also did they plant?
I think so too. The case is made of tissue paper but she doesn’t want to be characterized as acting like a political operator (though she will be anyway.)
I’m going with “intentionally had some still eyes only papers jumbled in”.
The comes a time where the judge needs to say enough is enough, the government needs to be held to a higher standard especially when doing unprecedented prosecutions. Moreso if the DOJ lets others skate for essentially the same thing.
1 posted on 5/4/2024, 9:08:23 AM by where’s_the_Outrage?
Bingo, unsecured in a garage but Ok. Meanwhile who knows what was done re planting things to incriminate a political opponent.
1984 Newspeak for evidence tampering.
The FBI just later tried to add extra documents that would not, could not belong in the middle of sequentially organized, dated records as placed in the original boxes and packed under close observation and labeled accordingly.
So, what else?
It’s too soon for Judge Cannon to dismiss. Too many facts are still up in the air.
You guys who want it dismissed today are like kids who want to pull the cake out of the oven 15 minutes early.
The parts that they cannot establish a ‘chain of evidence’ should be thrown out. At least, that’s the way it is on all of the TV shows.
In a just nation the judge would have thrown this entire case out and slapped huge penalties on the DOJ and Jack Smith. If I were to lie to a judge I would be thrown under the prison. But, Biden’s team... No problem.
Does “inadvertently jumbled” include evidence being planted in those boxes to use against Trump later on?
Mixed up on purpose. What did they steal??
Not if the Judge wants a better job.
A motion from Nauta’s attorneys again. They are doing the heavy lifting, while Trump’s attorneys just collect fees.
Need to know.....ASAP.....
Mistakes were made.Funny how the boxes “seized” from The Big Guy didn’t suffer the same fate.
That is the better question..
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