Federal agents executing the August 2022 search warrant of Donald Trump's residence had something else with them – props – according to a report by the Daily Caller.
An unsealed search warrant following the raid at Mar-a-Lago showed Trump had retained documents after leaving the White House including documents marked with “TS/SCI,” one of the highest levels of government classification and an item labeled “Info re: President of France.” (RELATED: Key Witness Against Trump A ‘Jerk,' Would Often Go ‘Rogue,' Possibly Suicidal)
But that wasn't dramatic enough, according to an admission by Jay Bratt, the lead Justice Department prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smith's team.
in a recent court filing, Bratt disclosed that agents had brought “top secret” cover sheets to use as placeholders while collecting classified documents. Moreover, it was noted that some classified records may not be in the same order as they were originally found.
The crime scene photo of classified documents allegedly found at Mar-a-Lago, complete with the bright red “classification” cover sheets, went viral in the weeks after the raid. Corporate media outlets breathlessly reported on the photo and the cover sheets as proof that Trump had been storing classified documents at his Florida property.
“[If] the investigative team found a document with classification markings, it removed the document, segregated it, and replaced it with a placeholder sheet. The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose,” Bratt wrote in a recent filing.
In a May filing, Waltine Nauta, Trump's defense attorney, wrote that the placeholders which the FBI brought to the scene to mark classified documents in stacks were out of place.
The admission led Trump's attorneys to suggest that the special counsel office did not preserve critical evidence, causing Judge Aileen Cannon to indefinitely postpone the presumptive Republican nominee's trial.
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