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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Feb 5, 2024, 04:23 PM Feb 2024

"Inaccurate and distorted": New Jack Smith filing blows up Trump's false Mar-a-Lago narrative

Special counsel Jack Smith shredded Donald Trump's effort to have prosecutors share information that his defense believes relevant to the former president's classified documents case in a scathing court filing Friday.

In the 67-page motion, federal prosecutors argued that Trump's legal team offered an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” and attempted to “cast a cloud of suspicion over responsible actions by government officials diligently doing their jobs," The Associated Press reports.

"The defendants’ insinuations have scant factual or legal relevance to their discovery requests, but they should not stand uncorrected,” the prosecutors write in the response, adding: “Put simply, the Government here confronted an extraordinary situation: a former President engaging in calculated and persistent obstruction of the collection of Presidential records, which, as a matter of law, belong to the United States for the benefit of history and posterity, and, as a matter of fact, here included a trove of highly classified documents containing some of the nation’s most sensitive information. The law required that those documents be collected.”

Smith's team also argued that the requests Trump's lawyers made were nearly indecipherable because of how vague and broad they were. Some of the requests, they added, had already been addressed in previous instances when the prosecution turned over a swath of information to the defense.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/inaccurate-distorted-jack-smith-filing-152552101.html

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"Inaccurate and distorted": New Jack Smith filing blows up Trump's false Mar-a-Lago narrative (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2024 OP
The last line in this filing needs a correction! Ani Yun Wiya Feb 2024 #1

Ani Yun Wiya

(797 posts)
1. The last line in this filing needs a correction!
Mon Feb 5, 2024, 10:14 PM
Feb 2024

In the conclusion section.
What currently reads:
"For all of these reasons, the Court should defendants’ motions to compel in their entirety."
Should read:
For all of these reasons, the Court should deny defendants’ motions to compel in their entirety

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