NEW: Based on new revelations of evidence disruption and potential tampering, Judge Cannon has postponed a key deadline in classified docs case. This is related to special guidance (CIPA) in classified docs matters.
She is done with Jack Smith's game-playing
This is in direct response to a filing today by Trump's lawyers that argued disclosures by Special Counsel Jack Smith proves the government did not preserve the integrity of boxes seized during MAL raid:
A copy of the letter Trump's lawyers sent to Jack Smith about special counsel's confession that evidence is not in its original form--and something the lead prosecutor, Jay Bratt, erroneously attested to in court last month.
If Sam Alito must recuse from Jan 6-related matters because his wife flew an upside down US flag (!?) allegedly demonstrating bias about J6, then so too must Ketanji Brown Jackson.
She was part of a 3-judge (all Dem appointees) appellate panel upholding Judge Tanya Chutkan's denial of Trump's privilege claims to keep his records from J6 committee.
In an hyperbolic, dishonest, and politically-charged opinion issued Dec 2021 (9 whole days after oral arguments), Jackson agreed with these claims about Trump and January 6. (Order written by Obama appointee Patricia Millett)
Almost every word here--esp the reference to Brian Sicknick--is a lie.
Jackson suggests protesters brought firearms (nope)
The opinion also cites perjured testimony of Capitol cop Aquilino Gonell, who lied about his injuries under oath before the committee and in court proceedings.
And no "member of the mob" has been identified or charged with building the gallows.
Jackson also repeated this brazen lie.
Not a single election-related lawsuit was fully adjudicated before Jan 6. SCOTUS denied considering multiple lawsuits including Texas AG Paxton's.
NEW: In recently filed affidavit in classified docs case, a dirty cop from the corrupt Washington FBI field office asks Dem donor/Epstein defender Judge Bruce Reinhart to sign a warrant to get the cell phones of Walt Nauta, one of Trump's personal aides.
Why? For moving boxes and allegedly giving inconsistent statements to authorities about boxes.
Reinhart of course also signed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. Everywhere you turn in this case, it gets dirtier and dirtier.
HOLY SH*T: Reinhart also signed off on a warrant to search NAUTA'S CAR.
Like he's a drug dealers or child trafficker.
This was all about DOJ's degenerate midget Jay Bratt attempting to torment Nauta into flipping on Trump.
And Nauta's residence.
FBI started targeting Nauta in May 2022. Bratt/DOJ wanted Nauta to flip and become a cooperating witness against Trump.
During a separate witness FBI interview, one FBI agent asked the witness about Nauta's general state of mind and if he was seeing anyone at the time.
You now see the usual suspects once again claim Judge Aileen Cannon is delaying the classified documents trial by putting on hold a key hearing (CIPA 5) that requires the defense to disclose what classified records they intend to use at trial.
What the very same analysts/commentators (looking at you Joyce Vance) intentionally ignore is that Special Counsel Jack Smith's mishandling of evidence and misrepresentations to the court are responsible for any delay. (Also, Smith didn't produce all classified discovery until the end of March.)
Further, the May 20 trial date has been vacated due to Smith's other indictment against Trump in DC (now on hold pending SCOTUS opinion on immunity--that trial date was March 4) and Trump's trial in NYC. One lawyer represents Trump in FLA and NYC.
These "legal" experts insist Trump has no due process rights and that one trial/proceeding should not impact another. Judge Cannon has explicitly said that she will honor Trump's rights as defendant to participate in his defense--which is further complicated by the need to review classified evidence in a secure facility.
Look at this argument by Jay Bratt in a filing last month. Keep in mind--this degenerate midget represents the United States:
This is from Smith's brief filed late Friday.
Not only did Smith (Bratt) admit Bratt misled the court last month related to the existing condition of the 34 boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago, but Smith further admitted the FBI index identifying exactly where an alleged classified record was found within a box containing other items IS NOT ACCURATE.
But, Smith claims, it doesn't matter if the FBI index is inaccurate or why the inner contents of the box is not in its original form because all that matters is an alleged classified document in defiance of the May 2022 subpoena was somewhere in the box.
Smith also tells Judge Cannon that since defense didn't uncover this scandal earlier, it should have no bearing on how to proceed.
Incredible.
This goes directly to the trust factor in the entire investigation. IT IS EXACTLY WHY JUDGE CANNON AUTHORIZED THE APPOINTMENT OF A SPECIAL MASTER AFTER THE RAID.
You know who look like the biggest idiots right now? The 11th Circuit Court panel who overturned Cannon's order. Had they allowed it to stand, this case probably would have blown up before the indictments.
And IMO, the fact Jack Smith just admitted "some" of the prop classified cover sheets used as placeholders do not match up with the classified record taken from the box and put into classified discovery is the biggest scandal:
Now turning to perhaps the most problematic issue for Jack Smith and Jay Bratt, his lead prosecutor.
This is from court transcript of April 12 hearing. Cannon (who probably already knew the real answer) asked Bratt about the condition of the seized boxes.
This is not true:
Jack Smith confessed as much in yesterday's filing. He would not have but for Nauta's attorney busting DOJ for tampering with evidence.
Defense building evidence to support motion to dismiss on prosecutorial misconduct--which is pending before Cannon.
This is even more stunning by Smith.
Setting aside the FBI high-tailed it out of southern FLA to conduct the investigation within the confines of the corrupt Washington FBI field office, Smith admits DOJ cannot be sure every place holder corresponds with the correct document.
Before I address the evidence-tampering filing posted by Special Counsel Jack Smith last night, let's turn to the motion that forced Smith to admit what happened--one filed by Walt Nauta's attorney on May 1.
Remember the photo of "classified docs" strewn on the floor with scary looking cover sheets to depict the classification level of various papers?
It appears those cover sheets, or slip sheets, were produced and used by the FBI after the raid.
The cover sheets do not represent the format in which the records were found--an intentional misrepresentation in the court docket for special master lawsuit and by the media.
Here is how Nauta's attorney described what we now know is the FBI's use of "slip sheets" to replace alleged classified papers.
Look familiar?
This is how DOJ in August 2022 described the files in
a filing to Judge Cannon with accompanying photo that went viral to make it appear that this was the original form of the documents seized by FBI.
This does not appear to be the truth--at all. It instead appears that the red, yellow, and blue cover sheets were "slip sheets" the FBI used to replace alleged classified files.
Jack Smith finally admitted yesterday the FBI used those sheets as placeholders (I mean, you can't really say "props" to help stage a "stunt") in his filing last night.
Then laughably claimed FBI found so many classified records they ran out of stunt covers/slip sheets.