Special Counsel Notes Tension Between 'I Didn't Know Those Docs Were There' And 'I Declassified Those Docs By Stealing T

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Special Counsel Notes Tension Between 'I Didn't Know Those Docs Were There' And 'I Declassified Those Docs By Stealing Them'

Judge Cannon will get right on that, you bet.

By LIZ DYE
on June 25, 2024 at 2:16 PM

On June 10, Donald Trump filed yet another motion to dismiss [pdf] his Florida documents case. In this latest offering, his lawyers Todd Blanche and Chris Kise feigned gross indignation that “The prosecution team destroyed exculpatory evidence supporting one of the most basic defenses available to President Trump in response to the politically motivated charges in this case.”

Their theory is that the FBI agents who executed the search warrant on Mar-a-Lago back in 2022 spoliated evidence by failing to preserve the exact order of boxes Trump had filled with knickknacks, press clippings, golf sweaters, and stolen classified documents. And somehow this constitutes a deprivation of due process and merits dismissal of the entire case.

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Last night the government responded [pdf] in a tone reflecting the special counsel’s gobsmacked incredulity at a pleading which so blatantly mischaracterizes both the facts and the law.

“Defendant Trump does not offer the Court a single case at any level, at any time, from anywhere in the country, in which the disruption of the precise order of documents gathered in the execution of a search warrant provided support for a spoliation claim,” the prosecutors began, adding that “Trump personally chose to keep documents containing some of the nation’s most highly guarded secrets in cardboard boxes along with a collection of other personally chosen keepsakes of various sizes and shapes from his presidency—newspapers, thank you notes, Christmas ornaments, magazines, clothing, and photographs of himself and others,” and “now claims that the precise order of the items within the boxes when they left the White House was critical to his defense, and, what’s more, that FBI agents executing the search warrant in August 2022 should have known that.”

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[Lovie777]

1. Liar liar, pants on fire...........................................

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Motion to dismiss cuz Slobby ate too many twinkies next??

[underpants]

3. Trump is a slob. That's one thing this showed that gets skipped over

He just had the remaining staff (there weren’t many) just throw everything in boxes, shrink wrap them, and put them on pallets. He couldn’t let on that he had to GET OUT mainly because it hurt his ego/image.