Jack Smith, Donald Trump (Smith photo via Mandel Ngan for AFP, Trump photo via AFP)
A new document from special counsel Jack Smith's legal team shows one of former President Donald Trump's lawyers once claimed he didn't own a computer, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan said.
Swan appeared on MSNBC Monday to discuss the Friday filing in Smith's confidential documents case filed against Trump in Florida's federal court.
While Trump's team has claimed the Justice Department hid information from them, the filing paints a different picture, Swan said.
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"Jack Smith's response to that is in this document, and he says, actually, we bent over backward to provide this footage to people," she explained. "We've even given hardware to lawyers so they can look at it."
Swan notes a line in the text where she says "jumped out" at her.
"Smith's prosecutors write that during a phone call, a lawyer for one of Trump's co-defendants explained that he did not own or have access to a laptop or desktop computer and was instead attempting to review the entirety of the government's discovery on a hand-held tablet," Swan said.
Swan explained that Smith's team is responding, "Hey, these people are complaining they can't watch the videos. We're trying to send them, but at the same time, they're trying, or at least this one particular important lawyer is trying to review the entirety of the discovery that the federal government is making via a hand-held tablet, which sounds like an iPad."
She noted prosecutors can't say such things outside of court, but they can give details in extensive filings like the one Friday.
"What they're signaling to the judge is please, please, please don't take everything you're hearing from Trump and the Trump allied lawyers at face value," Swan said.
See the discussion in the video below or at the link here.
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