The special counsel is defending the August 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago.
This image, contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice, shows a photo of materials found during the FBI's Aug. 8, 2022 search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate., special counsel Jack Smith defended the August 2022 search of the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate, following Trump's lawyers' request to dismiss the case on the basis that some of the documents were shuffled around during the search.
"Trump personally chose to keep documents containing some of the nation’s most highly guarded secrets in cardboard boxes along with a collection of other personally chosen keepsakes of various sizes and shapes from his presidency -- newspapers, thank-you notes, Christmas ornaments, magazines, clothing, and photographs of himself and others," the filing says.
Trump's lawyers claim the boxes were not preserved in the exact manner in which they were found, and claim the evidence has been tampered with. However, the special counsel argued in the filing that Trump's "cluttered collection of keepsakes" and "the haphazard manner" in which the items were stored allowed the contents of the boxes to shift anytime they were moved.
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