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A new filing from special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case swats down former President Donald Trump's demand for a broad range of discovery from various branches of the federal government, detailed by Politico's Kyle Cheney on Friday evening.

Trump pushed the discovery request as a bid to try to find evidence that the Biden administration orchestrated the investigation as a political hit against him — but Smith's filing reveals the exact nature of the Biden White House's involvement.

"Jack Smith provides new details about the origins of the classified documents case against Trump, including how Biden WH counsel came to be involved — with knowledge and participation of Trump's representatives," wrote Cheney on X....

Donald Trump can't yet be forced to disclose if he plans to rely on a defense that would shift blame to his lawyers, Judge Cannon ruled on Friday.

Special Counsel Jack Smith tried to force the former president to disclose his reliance on the defense, a move legal experts said would force Trump into a trap in which he gives up information that would otherwise be protected by attorney-client privilege.

But Cannon shut down that request, according to Katie Phang, a legal analyst for MSNBC....

Donald Trump is currently footing the bill for the legal representation of one of his co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case — and that co-defendant might not actually be aware of legal conflicts of interest, reported The Guardian's Hugo Lowell on Thursday.

Carlos De Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago property manager indicted in connection with the special counsel’s probe of Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents along with the former president and his body man Walt Nauta, requested to keep attorney John Irving during a federal court hearing, but didn't appear to understand the implications of this, Lowell wrote on X.

"De Oliveira was asked if he understood Irving’s potential conflicts arising from his prior representation of three people the Special Counsel could call as trial witnesses, and he said he would move forward with Irving anyway," said Lowell. "BUT De Oliveira, who did not complete high school and told the judge he could read English better than he could write, struggled to articulate the exact nature of the potential conflicts in his own words though he affirmed repeatedly when the judge walked him thru questions."...