Bombshell new reporting confirms today that Garland-appointed DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith has announced several new digital forensic expert witnesses in his sprawling stolen document case against ex-President Donald Trump — and they could serve to be the final nail in Donald Trump’s coffin when it comes to his already shakey ability to deny personal culpability in this case.
NBC News confirmed today that Smith has secured five new witnesses in the mishandled government documents case against Donald Trump, all of whom are slated to be called to testify in Trump’s trial in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in May. All 5 new witnesses are said to be experts in their fields of digital forensics or cellular analytics.
Right off hand, it’s easy to wonder how these particular experts could spell bad news for the former president’s defense. However, reporting confirms that Special Counsel Smith intends to use these new expert witnesses to officially die Donald Trump to the conspiracy to delete incriminating video security footage at his Mar-a-Lago resort and post-White House home, along with his co-conspirators and defendants, his long-time bodyman Walter Nauta and former Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira.
In his newest court filing, Smith references a June 2022 conversation between De Oliveira and Mar-a-Lago’s then-director of information technology, Yuscil Taveras, in which De Oliveira questioned Taveras about how long the golf resort’s security camera system retained recorded video footage and made specific note that “the boss” (i.e. Donald Trump) wanted the security server wiped clean of all video footage. Following his conversation with Taveras, De Oliveira would go on to speak with Nauta.
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As it stands, Donald Trump’s trial date in the classified documents case is set for May 20, 2024. However, multiple experts have expressed doubt that the trial will actually take place on schedule, due in part to the former president’s immunity appeal that’s currently ongoing in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and additional pre-trial extended deadlines for reviewing classified documents in the case by Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon.
Read NBC News’s full report on the development here.
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