Gregg Jarrett Says Jack Smith Caught ‘Manipulating Evidence’ Against Trump

Fox News authorized analyst Gregg Jarrett appeared to counsel that particular counsel Jack Smith and his crew of prosecutors engaged within the sort of chicanery in former President Donald Trump’s categorised paperwork case that might land them in scorching water.

Jarrett, throughout an interview with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Monday, accused particular counsel Jack Smith of deceptive a decide about proof preservation in authorized filings associated to the case.

In their submitting, Smith’s prosecutors knowledgeable U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon “that after boxes of documents were seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the order of the documents changed, which the court did not learn about until now,” the Western Journal reported.

The submitting addressed defendant Walt Nauta’s request for extra time to be taught the contents and group of the paperwork seized. It particularly recognized which paperwork had been wherein packing containers and the right sequence of the paperwork inside these packing containers. Smith’s submitting famous that the present order of the packing containers doesn’t match scans of them that had been made earlier, which is an issue, based on authorized consultants.

“The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose, until the FBI ran out because there were so many classified documents, at which point the team began using blank sheets with handwritten notes indicating the classification level of the document(s) seized,” Smith’s crew mentioned within the submitting. “The investigative team seized any box that was found to contain documents with classification markings or presidential records.”

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“Since the boxes were seized and stored, appropriate personnel have had access to the boxes for several reasons, including to comply with orders issued by this Court in the civil proceedings noted above, for investigative purposes, and to facilitate the defendants’ review of the boxes,” the Justice Department prosecutors wrote.

“There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans,” the doc mentioned.

Smith’s prosecutors then admitted they’d misled the courtroom.

“The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,” the doc added.

“There are several possible explanations, including the above-described instances in which the boxes were accessed, as well as the size and shape of certain items in the boxes possibly leading to movement of items,” the submitting mentioned.

Jarrett declared that the deceptive is “no small matter.”

“Prosecutors have a duty to preserve evidence, Larry, exactly as it is seized,” Jarrett mentioned. “Jack Smith’s special counsel admits now in court documents altering, manipulating evidence against Trump. The digital scan of documents doesn’t match the physical order in the boxes that were seized.”

“And Smith got caught,” Jarrett continued. “His excuse, ‘Well, your honor, it is a complicated case, lots of documents,’ that is not an excuse. This is evidence tampering. It is destroying exculpatory evidence and even worse, Smith lied to the court and he was forced to admit it although he did so in a footnote, ‘gee, I misled the judge.’ This is no small matter, Larry.”

This is how DOJ in August 2022 described the recordsdata in
a submitting to Judge Cannon with accompanying picture that went viral to make it seem that this was the unique type of the paperwork seized by FBI.

This doesn’t look like the reality–in any respect. It as an alternative seems that the… pic.twitter.com/yGAgYJMZEt

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 4, 2024

“The chronology of documents is vital to Trump’s defense. The staff boxed up exactly what they received from the GSA that was sent to Mar-a-Lago,” Jarrett mentioned. “And we also know the National Archives coordinated with Joe Biden’s White House and the Biden DOJ on how to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump. So one can argue that Trump is the victim of a setup.”

Trump additionally addressed the event in a Truth Social put up.

“It has always been clear that the ‘Documents Case’ is nothing but an Election Interference Scam concocted by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and their Hacks and Thugs,” Trump posted. “Now, Deranged Jack has admitted in a filing in front of Judge Cannon to what I have been saying happened since the Illegal RAID on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida – That he and his team committed blatant Evidence Tampering by mishandling the very Boxes they used as a pretext to bring this Fake Case.”

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