Special counsel Jack Smith‘s statement that several work phones used by Secret Service agents “did not contain any recoverable information” has raised fresh questions about the protection agency’s contention that text messages sent around the time of the January 6, 2021, uprising on the Capitol had been irretrievably deleted. In a federal indictment filed in […]
The filing was part of the special counsel’s opposition to a bid by Trump to access a broad swath of classified intelligence as part of his defense against charges that he conspired to subvert the 2020 election and disenfranchise millions of voters, culminating in the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Trump has argued […]
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to grant them access to a Justice Department filing on classified details in the case that special counsel Jack Smith wants removed from discovery proceedings. “Given the security clearances that have been extended to President Trump and counsel, and the volume of classified discovery […]
Special counsel Jack Smith is requesting that a Washington, D.C. jury be briefed on former President Donald Trump’s efforts to cast false doubts on the elections of 2012 and 2016 — a strategy the special counsel’s team contends laid the groundwork for a criminal effort to overturn the 2020 election after Trump’s defeat to Joe […]