In a filing on Friday, Jack Smith’s office rejected Trump’s claims of political bias and shared that his defense presented an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” in the Mar-a-Lago case.
Defense’s argument
The 67-page filing comes after Trump’s lawyers accused Smith’s office of violating “basic discovery obligations and DOJ policies in an effort to support the Biden Administration’s egregious efforts to weaponize the criminal justice system in pursuit of an objective that President Biden cannot achieve on the campaign trail: slowing down President Trump’s leading campaign in the 2024 presidential election.”
Smith’s office fires back
Following the January brief, Jack Smith’s office told the judge that the defense painted an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” while seeking to “cast a cloud of suspicion” on the government officials doing their jobs.
Inside the motion
The 68-page motion states, “The defendants’ insinuations have scant factual or legal relevance to their discovery requests, but they should not stand uncorrected.”
“Extraordinary situation”
The prosecution said they were in an “extraordinary situation” where the former president engaged in “calculated and persistent obstruction of the collection of Presidential records.”
Acting by the law
Jack Smith’s office argued that “the law required that those documents be collected,” adding that these were “some of the nation’s most sensitive information.”
“Speculative” and “false” theories
The prosecutors accused the defense of spreading “speculative, unsupported, and false theories of political bias and animus” instead of meeting the standards regarding the discoveries.
Not a political bias
They further wrote, “Referrals to offices with authority to consider the security concerns prompted by the revelation that Trump possessed classified records at Mar-a-Lago was, again, entirely appropriate and in no way indicative of political bias.”
Quoting Trump
The filing quoted Trump as saying, “In my administration, I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information.” Smith’s office responded that the communications between Archives officials and the DOJ were not suspicious because concerns about Trump keeping the classified documents“had mounted for months.”
Trump’s clearance
The prosecutor also responded to the matter of Trump’s clearance, saying that it ended as soon as he left the office, but adding, “Even if Trump’s Q clearance had remained active, that fact would not give him the right to take any documents containing information subject to the clearance to his home and store it in his basement or anywhere else at Mar-a-Lago.”
Trump, sort of, responded
Writing on Truth Social, the former president shared, “Deranged Jack Smith, Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James, Alvin Bragg, the J6 Committee of Political Thugs (who have deleted and destroyed all evidence and findings), and all of the rest of the Biden prosecutors and ‘bad people who hate our Country,’ are just as guilty as Fani Willis. It’s Biden Investigations for purposes of ELECTRION INTERFERENCE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
The classified documents trial
The trial is set for May, though delays are not entirely dismissed. Still, Trump has scheduled a hush money trial in Manhattan for March 25, and the final hearing will be on February 15.
Willis’ case
Fani Willis, Georgia DA who charged Trump and co-defendants regarding the alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 elections, acknowledged the affair with the top prosecutor, but she is not stepping down. The D.C. case, brought on by Jack Smith’s team, which was supposed to go to trial in March, was delayed until further notice.
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