Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team, who have brought several indictments against former President Donald Trump over the course of the last year, has admitted to incorrectly claiming to have handed over evidence as required by law in the current classified documents case against Trump. It’s almost like this whole thing is just a political attack designed to get Trump removed from the 2024 playing field. Feel free to stroke your chin in deep thought.
“While preparing last week to indict Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira for allegedly conspiring with Trump to delete surveillance footage from the estate, prosecutors learned that footage included as evidence ‘had not been processed and uploaded to the platform established for the defense to view,’ Smith’s team wrote in a filing Monday,” Just the News reported.
“The Government’s representation at the July 18 hearing that all surveillance footage the Government had obtained pre-indictment had been produced was therefore incorrect,” the prosecutors also remarked.
All of the CCTV footage is now in the custody of the federal government and has been handed over to the defendants, Smith’s team said. The “Brady rule” is a legal requirement that demands prosecutors disclose all evidence and information favorable to the defendant.
Earlier in the week, Trump denied ever deleting any of the footage at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, stating he voluntarily handed it all over to the prosecution. The former president has pleaded not guilty to the 37 charges filed against him in the classified documents fiasco, however, three more charges have since been brought against him when De Oliveira was added to the indictment last week.
“The classified documents case is separate from the federal election probe that Trump was indicted in on Tuesday,” the report concluded.
Another report published by Just the News said, “Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was indicted as part of a special counsel Jack Smith’s federal grand jury probe into his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results and the former president’s role in the subsequent Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Smith charged Trump with four counts, including conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.”
The indictment itself goes on to say that the former president “for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020… spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won.”
While the document does admit oh so graciously that Trump had a right to “speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won,” it makes an allegation that a conspiracy, along with other unlawful efforts of “discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results.”
It’s called freedom of speech. The right itself comes from God, which means that the government has no right to place limitations on it. It’s also protected by the First Amendment, which is part of the Bill of Rights contained in the Constitution.
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