In an unexpected move, special counsel Jack Smith is moving to strike a filing from former President Donald Trump under the Classified Information Procedures Act, as part of the 2020 election interference case.
The motion was filed on Thursday evening.
It is unclear exactly why Smith is trying to throw out this filing, but legal expert Bradley Moss speculated a possible reason in a post on social media.
In response to fellow legal analyst Empty Wheel asking whether Trump might have improperly included classified information in the filing, Moss said, "It’s possible. Certainly would explain why all they could file today was notice that the pleading had been given to the CISO. We’ll know more soon, hopefully."
Trump faces four counts in this case, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy against rights, and two counts of witness tampering.
Ironically, Smith is also prosecuting a separate case against Trump in Florida, involving the theft and unauthorized retention of highly classified national defense information in his Mar-a-Lago resort.
