In a shocking admission, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team has confirmed that key evidence in the criminal case involving former President Donald Trump’s classified documents was tampered with or manipulated after being seized by the FBI. Additionally, prosecutors have acknowledged that they misled the court about this issue for a considerable period of time.

Legal experts have expressed their concerns regarding the implications of this revelation, stating that it could pose serious problems for the prosecutors and potentially violate court rules that require evidence to be preserved in its original state.

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The recent court filing by Smith’s team reveals that the order of documents in some of the boxes of memos seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was altered or jumbled, resulting in two conflicting chronologies – one captured through digital scanning and another representing the physical order in the boxes.

Smith’s team explained in the filing that various personnel, including those complying with court orders, conducting investigations, and facilitating the defendants’ review of the boxes, have had access to the seized boxes since they were stored. As a result, certain boxes contain items that are not arranged in the same order as in the associated scans.

The Special Counsel’s team admitted in a footnote that they had previously misinformed the court by declaring that the evidence remained untouched since its seizure. According to the footnote, the government acknowledges the inconsistency between their prior understanding and representation to the court.

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The organization of documents in the storage boxes at Mar-a-Lago is expected to play a crucial role in Trump’s defense. His legal team plans to argue that the documents were stored in chronological order at the White House on the days Trump received them, and that staff simply boxed them up and sent them to his home without his knowledge of their classified contents.

Smith’s team attempted to downplay the significance of this problem and argued against a delay in Trump’s case. However, legal experts have highlighted that the court filing effectively amounts to an admission of evidence tampering and could present substantial challenges for the prosecutors.

Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz emphasized that prosecutors and investigators should never tamper with or alter evidence, including the order of documents in a box, as one cannot predict what may become crucial in court proceedings. Prominent defense attorney Tim Parlatore, who previously worked on Trump’s legal team in the classified documents case, called the admission “stunning on multiple levels” and criticized the prosecutors for their incompetence in conducting basic criminal investigations and prosecutions.

Moreover, Parlatore suggested that the loss of specific document locations amounted to the destruction of exculpatory evidence. He pointed out that during his review of the boxes at NARA (the National Archives and Records Administration), it was evident that the boxes remained untouched since leaving the White House.

Parlatore also emphasized that for prosecutors aiming to prove that the defendants knowingly possessed the documents, destroying evidence that undermines such a claim constitutes a serious violation.

Attempting to mitigate the problem, Smith’s team offered several explanations for how the documents and their order might have been scrambled since the government took possession of the boxes. These explanations include instances where the boxes were accessed, and the presence of smaller items like index cards, books, and stationery that could have shifted within the boxes during transport, especially considering that many of the boxes were not completely full.

The issue of evidence alteration has arisen in past political scandals and prosecutions in Washington. The erasure of an 18 1/2 minute segment in Richard Nixon’s White House tapes played a significant role in the Watergate scandal. Similarly, the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan era involved the revelation that documents had been shredded before investigators could obtain them. The Hillary Clinton classified email scandal in 2015 became even more complex when it was discovered that her team had used a program called “Bleach Bit” to delete emails on her secret computer server and destroyed email devices.

The current revelation regarding altered evidence in the Trump classified documents case adds to the growing list of concerns raised by conservatives regarding the conduct of the investigation and potential bias against the former president. As legal proceedings continue, the implications of this admission will undoubtedly play a crucial role in determining the outcome of the case.

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