Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors say former President Trump’s handling of classified documents is part of President Biden’s national security concerns outlined in a dueling special counsel Rob Herr’s report released earlier this month. He argued that the handling of classified information is not “similar or dissimilar” to the handling of classified information.
Monday’s 12-page filing countering President Trump’s motion to dismiss the charges “based on selective and convincing charges” was Smith’s first response to the blistering Hur report.
“Defendants have not identified, and were unable to do so, those who engaged in a series of exactly the same willful and deceptive criminal acts who were not indicted. “The comparables are readily distinguishable,” Assistant Special Counsel David Harbach wrote.
Harbach said he was a “key comparison” between Trump and his co-defendant, bodyman and valet Walt Nauta. Carlos de Oliveira, Mar-a-Lago’s property manager, is President Biden, whose actions were recently issued regarding Biden’s primary residence in Delaware and an investigation into classified documents recovered from the Penn Biden Center. This is stated in the HA report.
“However, as the Harbach report itself acknowledges, ‘there are several important differences between Mr. Trump’s case and Mr. Biden’s,'” Harbach wrote. “Most notable… , unlike Biden, Trump allegedly engaged in extensive and repeated activities to obstruct justice and prevent the return of classified documents, and evidence regarding the pair’s intentions, namely that they Whether he knowingly possessed and knowingly retained such documents. This is also quite different, as reflected in the Ha report’s conclusion that the
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Former President Trump (left) and President Biden. (AP)
Mr. Hsu’s report, which concluded that there was no warrant for criminal charges, said Mr. He is expected to appear in court.” . ”Thus, the special counsel argued that although the former president was already well into his 80s at that point, it was difficult to convince a jury to convict him of “a serious felony requiring a deliberate state of mind.” claimed to be difficult. He also noted how Biden mixed up the date of his son Beau’s death.
The White House and Biden’s allies characterized the details in Herr’s report about Biden’s age and mental health as an “unwarranted” political attack.
Still, as Halbach explained on Monday, many government officials end up in possession of classified documents after their terms end, often inadvertently, sometimes inadvertently, and in rare cases intentionally. However, similarly, “extremely few former government officials were in possession of classified documents.” Those found in possession of classified documents are subject to legitimate government efforts to retrieve them. The special counsel team views President Trump’s actions as unusual.
Special Counsel Jack Smith arrives in Washington, D.C., August 1, 2023, to speak about the recently unsealed indictment containing four felonies against former President Trump. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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“Never in American history has a former official engaged in conduct nearly similar to President Trump,” Harbach wrote.
“He knowingly acquired a vast trove of some of the most sensitive documents in the country – documents so sensitive that they were turned over to the president – and compromised the security of a busy social club. “It was stored in an unknown location,” he wrote. “When the National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) first sought its return (before it knew it contained classified defense information), Trump delayed, obfuscated, and disorganized it. Faced with possible legal action, they ostensibly agreed to comply with NARA’s request, but in reality engaged in further deception, disclosing documents in their possession while claiming to have completed the process. Only the copy was returned. ”
Special Counsel Robert Hur did not recommend criminal charges over President Biden’s handling of classified documents. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Harbach went on to say that when presented with a grand jury subpoena seeking the return of the remaining classified documents, “Mr. He suggested that he may have made false statements to the FBI and grand jury.” Since he did not have any documents, his lawyer suggested that he hide or destroy the documents rather than turning them over to the government. ” Prosecutors said Trump had Nauta cooperate with “a plan to deceive lawyers by moving boxes to conceal (Trump’s) continued possession of classified documents,” and used surveillance footage. He said he continued a pattern of “sabotage”, including trying to get parts of the website deleted.
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President Trump said the surveillance footage had not actually been deleted and dismissed the claim as a “prosecutor’s fabrication.”
