By Steve Neavling
Special counsel Jack Smith’s legal team fired back at Donald Trump’s claims of political bias, saying the former president’s defense attorneys have “painted an inaccurate and distorted picture of events.”
The rebuttal was made in a 67-page court filing Friday in the classified documents case that alleges Trump illegally hoarded restricted information at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
The filing was in response to Trump’s request for additional discovery in the case, which is “based on speculative, unsupported, and false theories of political bias,” Smith’s team wrote.
The prosecution, the filing states, was based on “responsible actions by government officials diligently doing their jobs” in attempting to collect documents from Trump that “as a matter of law, belong to the United States.”
“Put simply, the Government here confronted an extraordinary situation: a former President engaging in calculated and persistent obstruction of the collection of Presidential records, which, as a matter of law, belong to the United States for the benefit of history and posterity, and, as a matter of fact, here included a trove of highly classified documents containing some of the nation’s most sensitive information,” Smith’s team wrote. “The law required that those documents be collected.”
Meanwhile on Saturday, Trump reiterated his claims of political bias, targeting “Deranged Jack Smith” and other “Biden prosecutors,” saying they are “Biden’s investigations for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE.”
