Trump secret documents case: Prosecutors release new photos | Wilnesh News

Federal prosecutors prosecuting Donald Trump’s classified documents case have released new photos showing Trump storing boxes of documents that federal agents later seized from Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 in a “casual manner.”

Filing This is a recent response to Trump Motion to dismiss The case contends that FBI agents destroyed “exculpatory evidence” by failing to preserve documents in the order in which they were discovered.

Pointing to the photos – some showing documents scattered on the floor and others showing items ranging from clothes to newspapers in boxes – prosecutors said Trump’s motion to dismiss should proceed without a hearing was dismissed.

“In the context of Trump’s choice to keep the box haphazardly, he now claims that the precise order of the contents of the box as they left the White House is critical to his defense,” said prosecutors led by special counsel Jack Smith. reads the filing Monday night.

Prosecutors not only disputed Trump’s assertion that such an order existed, but also argued that federal agents “maintained the integrity, box-to-box, of every container in which the evidence was found.”

“The FBI agents who conducted the search conducted it professionally, thoroughly, and carefully under challenging circumstances, particularly given the cluttered condition of the box and the large number of highly classified documents retained by Trump,” they wrote.

The former president faces 40 federal criminal charges related to his alleged role in retaining classified government documents and keeping them out of the hands of federal authorities after his term as president ended.

Although Trump’s trial was originally scheduled to begin on May 20, a federal judge last month postponed that date indefinitely. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s May 7 ruling also adds a new set of pretrial proceedings that will almost certainly make possible nominees not go to trial before the November election.

Cannon oversaw two The case will be heard on Monday She was arraigned in a courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida, NBC News reported.

The first was a separate defense motion to dismiss the case, which challenged the constitutionality of Smith’s appointment as special prosecutor. The second hearing discussed the special counsel’s request for a gag order against Trump.