The bad news just keeps rolling in for scandal-ridden ex-President Donald Trump, after a bombshell new court filing from Garland-appointed DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith confirmed that he and his team conducted an interview as recently as Wednesday of last week in the Justice Department’s sprawling stolen classified documents criminal case against Donald J. Trump and two co-defendants — indicating that they’re still collecting evidence and information against them.
Smith recently filed court documents in response to Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon that detailed discovery items Smith and his office have recently turned over to the defense in this case.
This filing reads:
The United States of America, by and through the Special Counsel’s Office, files this pleading to supplement prior responses. Per the protective order issued in this case (ECF No. 27), the Government has provided thirteen prior productions of unclassified discovery to Defendants Donald J. Trump, Waltine Nauta, and Carlos De Oliveira.
On March 7, 2024, the Government provided a fourteenth production of unclassified discovery to counsel for Defendants (‘Production 14’). Production 14 consists of nine pages and includes the memorialization of an interview conducted on March 6, 2024.”
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While Smith’s court filing confirms that he and his office are still gathering information and evidence against Trump and his co-defendants, the new document does not make it immediately clear as to who Smith and his team interviewed or why.
The infamous stolen Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is one of four criminal cases currently raging against Donald Trump. The scandal-plagued former president stands accused of stealing thousands of classified documents and materials from the United States upon his 2020 election loss — many of which were marked with the highest security classifications in the country — and relocating them to his unsecured Mar-a-Lago golf resort when he left the White House. Trump and his co-defendants then schemed to lie to the US government about his possession of the documents and materials and attempted to hide them from federal authorities and destroy evidence of the materials’ movement around his FL compound.
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