DOJ Acknowledges That Biden Told Them To Falsify Documents in the Trump Secrets Case
The team led by Special Counsel Jack Smith acknowledged on Friday that the Biden administration had distorted key evidence in Trump's case involving sensitive papers.
The team led by Special Counsel Jack Smith acknowledged on Friday that the Biden administration had distorted key evidence in Trump's case involving sensitive papers.
Due to evidence manipulation, there are now two distinct chronologies: the one from the digital scans and the one from the physical boxes.
According to
, Smith also lied to the court after initially assuring U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the boxes were still "in their original, intact form as seized."
In a footnote, they admitted that they had taken out classified documents and replaced them with blank sheets, which the prosecution said resulted in a "inconsistent" record where some of the documents are out of order from digital scans taken in the fall of 2022.
According to
, the footnote states, "The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court."
The conclusion follows Cannon's order to investigate whether the FBI may have obtained records that are protected by legal privilege in response to a request from co-defendant Walt Nauta of Trump.
"This Court has issued orders in the civil proceedings mentioned above, for investigative purposes, and to facilitate the defendants' review of the boxes, appropriate personnel have had access to the boxes since the boxes were seized and stored,"
Smith's team stated in the filing on Friday
The file goes on, "There are certain boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans."
The way the papers are arranged in the Mar-a-Lago storage boxes will probably play a significant role in Trump's case.
His side will likely contend that workers merely boxed up the documents and shipped them to Trump's house without letting him know they contained sensitive material, and that the materials were kept in chronological order in the White House on the days that Trump received them.
Smith's team made an effort to minimize the issue and claimed Trump's case shouldn't be delayed because of it.
However, a number of legal experts told Just the News that the court filing could be problematic because it effectively admits tampering with the evidence. - Only the Updates
The sequence of documents in a box is one example of evidence that prosecutors and investigators should never tamper with or alter because you never know what might be important or relevant to a court or jury later on in a case, Alan Dershowitz told Just the News.
Defense lawyer Tim Parlatore, who was previously on Trump's team in the case involving the classified documents but is no longer involved, called the admission "striking on multiple levels" and added that it "reinforces the incompetence" of prosecutors "in conducting basic criminal investigations and prosecutions that I observed when I was on the team."
Parlatore continued, "But on a deeper level, losing particular document locations is a destruction of exculpatory evidence."
It was evident to us that the boxes had not been opened since leaving the White House, so when I went through every box at NARA, the document sequence was crucial.
He stated, "It is a very serious violation for prosecutors who are trying to prove that the defendants possessed these documents knowingly to then destroy the evidence that would undermine that claim."
Deranged Jack has admitted in a filing before Judge Cannon to what I have been saying happened since the Illegal RAID on my home—that he and his team committed blatant Evidence Tampering by mishandling the very Boxes they used as a pretext to bring this Fake Case.
Trump responded to the filing on Truth Social.
Smith's Justifications The prosecution provided multiple justifications for the falsified evidence.
"There exist multiple plausible rationales, such as the previously mentioned incidents where the boxes were accessed, and the potential for specific items' dimensions and configurations within the boxes to cause item displacement," the document states.
"For instance, many of the boxes are not completely filled, so when the boxes are carried, the smaller items—like index cards, books, and stationary—move around easily."
Nevertheless, Just the News also points out that manipulated evidence has been a major element in other political scandals.
The removal of an 18 and a half-minute clip from the White House recordings belonging to Richard Nixon emerged as a crucial element in the Watergate affair.
During the Reagan years, the Iran-Contra controversy broke when it was discovered that records were destroyed before being seen by investigators.
The discovery in 2015 that Hillary Clinton's crew had destroyed email devices and used a "Bleach Bit" tool to delete emails from her private computer server compounded the crisis surrounding her classified emails.
This is "Yet more reason to throw out this sham prosecution," as Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch puts it.
Furthermore, as the
points out, the lawsuit was filed against President Trump and other parties for allegedly breaking federal law by handling sensitive data.
The accused have entered a not guilty plea. Mr. Nauta and the other defendants in the case have not yet replied to the updated filing.
The request for an extension made by Mr. Nauta is one of several documents that are either sealed or not available for viewing.
President Trump's team claimed in a recent filing that the case ought to be dropped because the prosecution is driven by "improper political animus."
They cited, among other things, the fact that White House attorneys collaborated with the National Archives and Records Administration on the case's referral to the Department of Justice and that President Joe Biden had stated that he was "making sure" President Trump "does not take office again."
The dismissal request was disputed by the prosecution, but their objection was filed under seal.