Oct. 26, 2023 - Epoch Times
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| The federal judge who is overseeing President Trump's classified documents case, she has just issued a major rejection to Mr. | |
| Jack Smith, the prosecutor who is pushing the case forward. | |
| Because, you see, Mr. | |
| Jack Smith and his team, they were making the attempt to set up a separate private facility over in Washington D.C. such that President Trump and his legal team would have to go all the way to Washington in order to review the classified documents in the case. | |
| And also, somehow, despite the Department of Justice trying to push this case through before the election, while the number of documents for Trump's legal team to actually review has ballooned to well over a million. | |
| Although, to make sense of what's happening here, and what this rejection of Jack Smith actually means, I need to back up for a quick moment and set the stage for you properly regarding how we got to this point. | |
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| Now, to start with, this man right here is Mr. | |
| Jack Smith, the Justice Department's special counsel who is leading the charge in several of the cases against President Trump at the federal level. | |
| And while most of the country's attention has been focused on Jack Smith's case related to January 6th, well, it's actually the classified documents case that's playing itself out over in Miami that's been seeing the most amount of action. | |
| You see, right now, the classified documents case, it's in the discovery phase. | |
| This is where you have both sides, the prosecution as well as the defense, share their documents with one another so that both sides can get their cases all aligned and ready before they actually go to trial. | |
| However, unlike a typical normal discovery process, where the prosecution would just photocopy the evidence and mail it over to the defense, well, that's not exactly what's happening here. | |
| That's because the prosecution, meaning Jack Smith and his team, they made the argument that since this case involves classified documents, they need to set up a private facility for viewing them. | |
| The judge in this case, she agreed. | |
| And so a private facility was set up over in Florida so that Trump's legal defense team can go to this facility, look at the documents, and prepare their legal defense. | |
| That sounds simple enough. | |
| Except it's not. | |
| That's because, for one, the total number of documents in this case, for some odd reason that we'll get to in a moment, well, it has just ballooned to well over a million. | |
| And second of all, You heard that right. | |
| Despite the fact that this case has been ongoing for well over half a year now, and despite the fact that the prosecution is pushing for a trial date of around May of next year, they have yet to hand over many crucial documents that Trump's legal team says they need to have. | |
| In fact, here is what Trump's legal team recently wrote in a filing that they sent to the judge accusing the special counsel's office of not turning over the relevant evidence. | |
| The special counsel's office has not provided some of the most basic discovery in the case. | |
| Given the current schedule, we cannot understate the prejudice to President Trump arising from this lack of access to these critical materials months after they should have been produced. | |
| Furthermore, besides not having access to all the relevant documents, Trump's legal team, they also cited, quote, being only able to access the classified documents in the small, temporary Florida location as a barrier for the busy candidate who is splitting his time between campaigning and attending a civil trial in New York where he stands to lose Trump organization. | |
| And just for your reference, as it was alluded to in the statement of theirs, the facility that's been set up over in Florida is indeed a temporary one. | |
| The Department of Justice claims that the actual secure facility will not be ready for another three months. | |
| And so this was the general situation. | |
| Trump's legal team, they were arguing that for one, the Department of Justice has been withholding evidence from them, even though there is a super tight deadline in terms of the trial date. | |
| And secondly, the The small facility that they set up over in Florida, where the classified files can be viewed, is prohibitive for a man who is currently running for president while also in the midst of several other lawsuits. | |
| And as such, Trump's legal team, they asked the judge to push the trial date back. | |
| However, the Department of Justice, they pushed back on that. | |
| That's because, for one, Jack Smith responded to Trump's team with his own filing, writing that, quote, there was no credible reason to postpone the case, and that they already had access to considerable amounts of the material. | |
| And then, regarding the second point about how generally inconvenient it is to have to go to a small room somewhere in Florida to view these classified documents, well, Jack Smith, he submitted a request to the judge in order to quote, meaning that there would be two separate facilities holding these documents. | |
| Now, it's not exactly clear why setting up a facility all the way in Washington, D.C. would be any more convenient to Trump and his legal team, given the fact that they're not actually based out of D.C. And secondly, Trump's lawyers, they argued against this plan by saying that, well, among other reasons, that, quote, meaning that by having two separate locations, the documents would be split up, which would make it even harder to review them and prepare one single case. | |
| And so then, an obvious question out of all this arises. | |
| If this was such an illogical idea, given the circumstances, why did Jack Smith and his team suggest it? |
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