Federal prosecutors hit back at Trump in classified documents case
Special counsel Jack Smith’s legal team rejected the former president's contention that the case was “politically motivated and biased” in a new court filing.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s legal team on Friday rejected former President Donald Trump’s claims of political bias in the classified documents case against him in Florida.
The 67-page filing came in a response to an effort by Trump’s lawyers to get prosecutors to turn over certain documents that they claim will serve as evidence of bias and misconduct surrounding records that were retrieved from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence. Smith’s team urged the court to deny Trump’s request in its entirety.
“Discovery requests must be based on specific demands, tied to the case, for items material to preparing the defense,” prosecutors wrote. “Instead of meeting those standards,” they added, Trump’s team was seeking records “based on speculative, unsupported, and false theories of political bias and animus.”
This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.Justice Dept. via APProsecutors contended that Trump’s recent court filing sought to “cast a cloud of suspicion over responsible actions by government officials diligently doing their jobs.”
“Referrals to offices with authority to consider the security concerns prompted by the revelation that Trump possessed classified records at Mar-a-Lago was, again, entirely appropriate and in no way indicative of political bias,” they wrote.
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