Special Counsel Jack Smith’s legal team has admitted that key evidence in Donald Trump’s classified documents criminal case has been tampered with.
In a legal filing on Friday, Smith’s team claimed that “appropriate personnel” had been given access to the boxes since they were seized but acknowledged that items within the boxes may no longer be in the correct chronological order:
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 inventories and scans created during the civil proceedings were later produced in discovery in this criminal case. Because these inventories and scans were created close in time to the seizure of the documents,…
