President Trump's legal team has filed a motion to dismiss a superseding indictment in his classified documents case and to suppress all evidence obtained from the Mar-a-Lago search.
In a 29-page document submitted on Monday, Trump’s attorneys argued that special counsel Jack Smith's team had compromised the evidence against Trump. They contended that Trump could not have known he had taken classified documents, as these were mixed with his personal belongings.
“President Trump’s attorneys have filed a powerful motion asking Judge Cannon to fully and completely dismiss the ‘boxes' Hoax due to the illegal actions by Crooked Joe Biden’s Department of Injustice in its shocking failure to preserve the boxes taken from President Trump’s home in the unconstitutional and unAmerican raid on Mar-a-Lago,” Trump Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement.
In May, Jack Smith's office acknowledged that key evidence in the case had been altered or manipulated since it was seized by the FBI. The office also admitted that prosecutors had misled the court regarding this evidence.
The superseding indictment, filed in 2023 by Smith, alleges that Trump attempted to have his employees delete security footage requested by a federal grand jury. Prior to this, Trump faced 37 charges related to the mishandling of classified documents.
Trump has repeatedly filed motions to dismiss the charges against him, but U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has rejected all of them so far. In April, for example, she denied a motion in which Trump claimed that the documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago were his personal records.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 45 charges.
Read the filing here.
