The former president says classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort were mixed in with his newspapers and personal affects.
Prosecutor Jack Smith is seeking to counter Donald Trump's claims that key evidence has been ruined in his classified documents case in Florida.Trump says that prosecutors withheld information that key classified documents found in his Mar-a-Lago estate were mixed in with her personal papers. The former president's lawyers say this shows that he had no ill intent and was not consciously trying to hold on to classified documents after leaving the White House in January 2021.
'In the June 10 motion, Trump's lawyers said prosecutors should have disclosed that the classified documents were mixed in with the former president's personal effects. 'The fact that the allegedly classified documents were buried in boxes and commingled with President Donald Trump's personal effects from his first term in office strongly supported the defense argument that he lacked knowledge and culpable criminal intent with respect to the documents at issue.
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