'End the boxes hoaxes!' Trump accuses Jack Smith of 'evidence tampering' in docs case

Donald Trump on Friday railed against the classified documents criminal case he faces in Florida, accusing Special Counsel Jack Smith of evidence tampering and demanding the entire case be dropped.

Trump, who has largely spoken positively of the Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon who is overseeing the documents case, took to Truth Social to rant about the prosecution's latest actions in the case accusing the former president of illegally stashing away government secrets.

"It has always been clear that the 'Documents Case' is nothing but an Election Interference Scam concocted by Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and their Hacks and Thugs," he said. Then, the ex-president alleged misconduct on behalf of the prosecutors.

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"Now, Deranged Jack has admitted in a filing in front of Judge Cannon to what I have been saying happened since the Illegal RAID on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida - That he and his team committed blatant Evidence Tampering by mishandling the very Boxes they used as a pretext to bring this Fake Case."

Further, according to Trump, "These deeply Illegal actions by the Politicized 'Persecutors' mandate that this whole Witch Hunt be DROPPED IMMEDIATELY."

"END THE 'BOXES HOAXES.' MAGA2024!" he concluded Friday.

Trump is referring to a development from hours earlier. According to Politico's report, "Special counsel Jack Smith’s team acknowledged mischaracterizing the issue at a recent hearing in the Trump classified documents case, but said the reordering was not significant."

"In their filing, prosecutors acknowledged the government had previously — and incorrectly — told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the boxes remained 'in their original, intact form as seized,' other than a decision to replace classified documents with placeholder sheets," the report states. "That depiction, the prosecutors conceded, is 'inconsistent' with their current understanding that some of the documents are not now in the same order as they appear in digital scans of the records that were made in the fall of 2022 after Cannon ordered an unusual process to review whether the FBI may have seized legally privileged records."