Former President Trump returns to Trump Tower, New York City, Monday, April 15, 2024. Trump was in Manhattan Criminal Court today for jury selection in the so-called "hush-money" case. (Probe-Media for Fox New Digital)
"The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court," a footnote in the filing reads.
The filing comes after one of Trump’s co-defendants in the case asked for a delay as lawyers were having trouble figuring out the origin of some of the documents in the evidence boxes.
The FBI agents seized 33 boxes of documents in August 2022 from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, spurring another legal battle that Trump has called a "scam." The investigation is overseen by special prosecutor Smith, whom Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed to the job, and has charged Trump with 40 felony counts, including allegedly violating the Espionage Act, making false statements to investigators and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and slammed the case as an "Election Inference Scam" promoted by the Biden administration and "Deranged Jack Smith."
President Biden speaks at Abbotts Creek Community Center during an event to promote his economic agenda in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Jan. 18, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Stern’s letter detailed that the team was looking for "original correspondence between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jung-un" and "the letter that President Obama left for President Trump on his first day in office," Real Clear reported.
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He added that he understood that transitioning administrations was "very chaotic" and it could take "several more months" to transfer the documents, the Federalist reported. By June of that year, a national archivist appointed by former President Barack Obama, David Ferriero, told the Trump team he was running "out of patience," unredacted filings show. The filing states that Ferriero dismissed "good-faith efforts by President Trump’s PRA representatives to address issues raised by NARA."
This image, contained in the indictment against former President Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florda. (Justice Department via AP)
Stern complied with the instructions, and a criminal referral was sent to the DOJ on Feb. 9.
News of the criminal referral sparked condemnation from Republicans that it was spurred by political spite at the hands of Democrats against Trump.
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"At no time and under no circumstances were NARA officials pressured or influenced by Committee Democrats or anyone else," acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote in a letter to congressional Republicans in 2022.
Trump was charged alongside his personal aide and valet, Walt Nauta, as well as Mar-a-Lago maintenance chief Carlos De Oliveira. Unredacted court filings show Nauta’s attorney was allegedly threatened he could lose a shot at becoming a federal judge if Nauta didn’t flip on Trump.
A motion filed in June 2023, and recently unredacted, reported that Nauta’s attorney Stanley Woodward met with DOJ National Security Division Chief Jay Bratt just weeks after the raid on Mar-a-Lago and "was led to a conference room where Mr. Bratt awaited with what appeared to be a folder containing information about Mr. Woodward," the Federalist reported.
Former President Trump speaks to supporters at a rally to support local candidates on Sept. 3, 2022 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The DOE’s "Central Personnel Clearance Index and Clearance Action Tracking System ‘reflect[ed] an active Q clearance’ for President Trump," according to the 2024 filing, as reported by the Federalist.
An assistant general counsel at the agency, however, "instructed that the relevant systems ‘be immediately amended’ and ‘promptly modified to reflect the terminated status of [President] Trump’s Q clearance,'" the filing states.
President Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Sept. 15, 2023. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone from whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him – by then a former president well into his eighties – of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness," Hur wrote in his report.
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The findings sparked widespread outrage that Biden was effectively deemed too cognitively impaired to be charged with a crime, but could serve as president. Trump has meanwhile slammed the disparity in charges as a reflection of a "sick and corrupt, two-tiered system of justice in our country."
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