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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: where's_the_Outrage?
Let's go back and recall the DOJ's actions on the day they raided Mar-a-Lago ---

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"?

61 posted on 05/04/2024 8:05:46 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

BTTT


62 posted on 05/04/2024 8:08:05 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

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?


63 posted on 05/04/2024 8:19:27 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: MMusson

What also did they plant?


64 posted on 05/04/2024 8:20:56 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: MrRelevant

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.)


65 posted on 05/04/2024 8:21:54 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Qwapisking

I’m going with “intentionally had some still eyes only papers jumbled in”.


66 posted on 05/04/2024 8:22:40 AM PDT by bgill (.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

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.


67 posted on 05/04/2024 8:24:46 AM PDT by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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To: Qwapisking
“inadvertently jumbled”

1984 Newspeak for evidence tampering.

68 posted on 05/04/2024 8:31:33 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Simple.

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?

69 posted on 05/04/2024 8:38:54 AM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

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.


70 posted on 05/04/2024 8:47:31 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: catnipman

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.


71 posted on 05/04/2024 8:48:21 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

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.


72 posted on 05/04/2024 8:52:12 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Does “inadvertently jumbled” include evidence being planted in those boxes to use against Trump later on?


73 posted on 05/04/2024 8:55:46 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Mixed up on purpose. What did they steal??


74 posted on 05/04/2024 8:57:38 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Not if the Judge wants a better job.


75 posted on 05/04/2024 9:02:16 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

A motion from Nauta’s attorneys again. They are doing the heavy lifting, while Trump’s attorneys just collect fees.


76 posted on 05/04/2024 9:28:08 AM PDT by Fido969 (Ia)
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To: ptsal

Need to know.....ASAP.....


77 posted on 05/04/2024 9:47:05 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
The overriding fact is that the documents in these boxes were NOT packed by Trump or his staff, but by GSA employees. They are the supposed experts on document retention, so why did they pack documents clearly marked "classified" or "secret"? (We know they were clearly marked because of the staged FBI photos after the raid.)

Why were the classified documents not set aside for special handling, or for retention in the national archives? Why were they mingled in with routine documents in the six pallets of boxes that the GSA INSISTED be sent to Mar-a-Lago??
78 posted on 05/04/2024 10:57:02 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Mistakes were made.Funny how the boxes “seized” from The Big Guy didn’t suffer the same fate.


79 posted on 05/04/2024 1:19:22 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: odawg

That is the better question..


80 posted on 05/04/2024 1:22:38 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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