Special counsel Jack Smith rejected former President Donald Trump‘s claims that the classified documents case against him in Florida should be dismissed, according to court documents filed Thursday.
Smith addressed several arguments Trump had made in his requests for dismissal, including the former president’s claim that he was authorized under the Presidential Records Act to declassify documents and that his actions were protected by presidential immunity.
Trump has asserted on several occasions that he was “covered by the Presidential Records Act” after Smith charged him last year with willfully retaining national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago residence following his exit from the White House.
Trump’s attorneys moved to dismiss the case on those grounds, saying in a filing last month that the Presidential Records Act granted “unreviewable discretion on President Trump to designate the records at
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