Former President Trump calls for arrest of special prosecutor Jack Smith

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On Monday, former President Donald Trump sent an email to his supporters calling for the arrest of one of the prosecutors appointed to his election interference and classified documents cases.

“BIDEN PROSECUTOR JACK SMITH ADMITS TO MISHANDLING EVIDENCE!,” Trump wrote in Monday’s email.

“Out of control prosecutor Jack Smith just ADMITTED to tampering with evidence in the one of the WITCH HUNT BIDEN TRIALS being waged against me,” Trump continued.

“Crooked Joe & his corrupt DOJ want to tear this country apart,” Trump added.

“BECAUSE IF THEY CAN TAKE ME DOWN, THEN THEY’LL COME AFTER YOU NEXT!” Trump concluded.

As previously reported, Smith, is the special counsel overseeing classified documents and 2020 election cases against Trump. Smith has more than a decade of prosecutorial experience, including high profile public corruption cases.

Back in August, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., returned a four-count indictment charging Trump with attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election.

Also as previously reported, Smith’s team obtained a search warrant in January for records related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge levied a $350,000 fine on the company for missing the deadline to comply, according to court documents.

Politico reported on May 3, 2024, Smith’s team recently acknowledged that evidence in Trump’s prosecution for retaining classified documents in at his Florida residence “may not be in the same sequence FBI agents found it when they swept into the Mar-a-Lago compound with a search warrant in August 2022.”

According to court documents obtained by the Wisconsin Law Journal, “there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.”