Jack Smith's new filing accuses Trump of lying to the court to delay trial

In a new filing posted in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case on Thursday evening, special counsel Jack Smith accused former President Donald Trump and his legal team of lying to delay the trial schedule.

"Defendant Donald J. Trump filed an unclassified response, ECF No. 191, and classified supplement, which made incorrect and misleading allegations about the discovery record in furtherance of his attempt to delay the pretrial litigation schedule and May 20, 2024 trial date," Smith's filing said.

"This reply brief corrects the defense’s misleading statements and sets the record straight: as of October 6, the defense has had available to it nearly all unclassified and classified discovery collected by the Government to date, as set forth in prior filings cited below, and the Government understands that the defense SCIF has been approved to store all classified materials in this case, including the special measures documents," the filing continued. "The Government has met and exceeded its discovery obligations to date and the discovery record provides no cause to delay these proceedings."

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In this case, Trump is accused of illegally stealing and hoarding highly classified national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago country club in South Florida.

At various points during the trial, Judge Aileen Cannon, a relatively inexperienced judge appointed by Trump himself, has taken a number of steps that appear highly sympathetic to him and suspicious of the case against him, including siding with the former president that he is not being given "timely" access to classified documents for evidence review in the case.

This is all occurring at the same time as Smith advances the parallel 2020 election interference case against Trump in Washington, D.C.