In the latest court filings before judge Aileen Cannon concerning the classified documents case, the convicted felon and rapist has argued that the charges should be dropped on grounds that investigators failed to preserve evidence in the order in which they were found.

In a 33-page filing last night, documents marked “secret” and “top secret” or bearing the White House emblem are seen stuffed in cardboard boxes alongside piles of golf shirts, sitting on top of old newspapers, and next to crates of Diet Coke.

Smith’s team wrote that 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.”

Documents were discovered spilling out on the floor from tipped-over boxes: “Against this backdrop of the haphazard manner in which Trump chose to maintain his boxes, he now claims that the precise order of the items within the boxes when they left the White House was critical to his defense, and, what’s more, that FBI agents executing the search warrant in August 2022 should have known that.”

Couple of points: Cannon has already seen this evidence and knows that Trump is going to be convicted if this case ever goes to trial (which is one of the reasons she's slow-dragging this until at least after the election). Trump has claimed that internal FBI emails suggested that the FBI long knew there was an issue with how the boxes were seized. In response, prosecutors revealed what the emails actually concerned: that a witness discovered additional classified material at Mar-a-Lago the day after the August 2022 search.

Me, I'm still waiting for Dope1 to write that Trump shouldn't be allowed to run for office and belongs, instead, in prison.

Yeah, I know: I ain't holding my breath.

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