Jack Smith, in Startling Filing in Trump Mar-a-Lago Case, Admits To Misleading Judge and Altering Order of Secret Documents

The special counsel, in a possible boon to Trump, admits to misleading the courts to whether the Mar-a-Lago documents were kept in their original order.

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Special Counsel Jack Smith on August 1, 2023, at Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s admission that the evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case could have been jumbled out of its initial sequence — and that he misled the court on this score — could provide fresh grounds for President Trump to challenge the prosecution. 

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