Special counsel Jack Smith concealed evidence about his office's collaboration with the Biden administration, Donald Trump's lawyers alleged in a filing in the Florida case regarding the former president's handling of classified documents, the Daily Caller reported.
Trump's lawyers claimed in the 68-page filing that they received heavily redacted documents from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealing "politically motivated operatives in the Biden administration and the National Archives and Records Administration" (NARA) have been pushing the classified documents investigation since 2021.
The former president's lawyers added the documents obtained through FOIA "should have been disclosed by the [special counsel's] Office, in unredacted form, at the outset of the case" and asked the judge to require Smith to provide any "additional evidence of bias and political animus."
"The Special Counsel's Office has disregarded 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," Trump's lawyers argued.
"The patent absurdity of the Office's efforts is illustrated by the fact that, while working toward a historic landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses yesterday, President Trump was also preparing to bring to Your Honor's attention today the record of misrepresentations and discovery violations that have marred this case from the outset and illustrate that the Office has disregarded fundamental fairness and its legal obligations in favor of partisan election interference."
The details from the FOIA request, "coupled with other evidence scattered throughout more than 1.2 million pages of discovery, reflect close participation in the investigation by NARA and Biden Administration components such as the White House Counsel's Office, as well as senior officials at DOJ and FBI."
The filing stated that the former president will also "dispute at trial the contentions by the Special Counsel's Office that Mar-a-Lago was not secure and that there was a risk that materials stored at those premises could be compromised."
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