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Former President Donald Trump pressured Joe Biden’s Justice Department to take action against special counsel Jack Smith after discrepancies in handled evidence were revealed in a legal filing.
“Arrest deranged Jack Smith. He is a criminal,” Trump wrote.
Smith’s prosecutors informed Judge Aileen Cannon that some evidence wasn’t in its original form, leading to Trump’s calls for Smith’s arrest on Truth Social.
The filing highlighted issues with document organization and alterations, contradicting previous statements.
“Since the boxes were seized and stored, appropriate personnel have had access to the boxes for several reasons, including to comply with orders issued by this Court in the civil proceedings noted above, for investigative purposes, and to facilitate the defendants’ review of the boxes,” Justice Department prosecutors wrote.
“There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans,” the document added.
“The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,” the document read.
“There are several possible explanations, including the above-described instances in which the boxes were accessed, as well as the size and shape of certain items in the boxes possibly leading to movement of items,” the filing read.
“For example, the boxes contain items smaller than standard paper such as index cards, books, and stationary, which shift easily when the boxes are carried, especially because many of the boxes are not full,” it read.
The handling of evidence at Trump’s resort in Florida in August 2022 is under scrutiny, with accusations of evidence tampering.
Trump denounced the investigation as an election interference scheme and called for its immediate end on social media, emphasizing what he sees as evidence mishandling by Smith and his team.
“It has always been clear that the ‘Documents Case’ is nothing but an Election Interference Scam concocted by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and their Hacks and Thugs,” Trump wrote. “Now, Deranged Jack has admitted in a filing in front of Judge Cannon to what I have been saying happened since the Illegal RAID on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida — That he and his team committed blatant Evidence Tampering by mishandling the very Boxes they used as a pretext to bring this Fake Case.”
“These deeply Illegal actions by the Politicized ‘Persecutors’ mandate that this whole Witch Hunt be DROPPED IMMEDIATELY. END THE ‘BOXES HOAXES.’ MAGA2024!”
