Donald Trump’s legal team has been working overtime to force Special Counsel Jack Smith to make public his prosecution team’s evidence against the former president in the criminal documents case, and they just had a victory… sort of.
Recently, Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed several documents in the Florida criminal case, resulting in a trove of new revelations. One of those newly disclosed details was that Walt Nauta, Trump’s valet and co-defendant in the case, previously told a grand jury that his boss would throw papers “on the floor” when he “would leave for the evening.”
But those filings also showed some information that “undercuts” Trump’s claims in the case, according to a report from ABC.
“A coat hanger or ‘very tiny screwdriver’ could be used to unlock the Mar-a-Lago storage room where former President Donald Trump stored highly classified documents for more than a year, according to a witness in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation,” it states. “The account was relayed to FBI agents by an unidentified aide to Trump in January 2023, according to newly released exhibits, and further undercuts claims by Trump that the highly-classified materials he’s accused of taking with him after leaving office were secured at all times.”
The report further notes the origin of the crucial release.
“The transcript of the interview was released as part of an ongoing effort by Trump and his co-defendants to make additional evidence gathered by Special Counsel Smith public,” it reads.
ABC notes that the reported detail “further bolsters concerns raised by Smith about the lack of security surrounding the documents while they were stored in Mar-a-Lago.”
“In his indictment of Trump, he included photos showing boxes believed to have contained classified documents in a ballroom at the club as well as a bathroom,” it reported.
