Former President Donald Trump is raising new objections in his classified documents case in Florida after special counsel Jack Smith recently admitted that documents in some boxes federal investigators retrieved from Trump’s home are now out of order.
Trump’s attorneys asserted that Smith had “failed to maintain the integrity of the contents of at least some of the boxes obtained from Mar-a-Lago.”
“President Trump and counsel are deeply troubled to be learning of these facts approximately 11 months after the charges were filed in this case,” the attorneys wrote in court filings.
Trump’s defense attorneys urged Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday evening to delay a key deadline in the case because of the revelation. They also warned that unless prosecutors could sufficiently address the issue, Trump would also seek to dismiss the case altogether because of it.
Trump’s delay request,
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