Politico reports:
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.
Read the full article. Prosecutors say that the slip-up is of no significance to their case, but the cult, of course, is already having a field day on X.
BREAKING: Special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors acknowledge some documents FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago may have been jumbled within boxes. Feds see no impact on case, but discrepancies are fodder for defense. w/@kyledcheneyhttps://t.co/ZC17rW5hYq
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