Donald Trump Demands Jack Smith Be Arrested After Document Revelation

Why it matters that Trump wants to see Jack Smith get 'arrested'

Donald Trump has called for Special Counsel Jack Smith to be arrested after the prosecutor’s team said some evidence in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case are no longer in their “original, intact” form.

In a post on Truth Social, the former president demanded “ARREST DERANGED JACK SMITH. HE IS A CRIMINAL!” after federal prosecutors wrote in court filings that there are some boxes where the “order of items within that box is not the same” as they appear in digital scans of materials in the wake of the FBI retrieving them from Trump’s Florida resort in August 2022.

Smith’s office admitted that this is “inconsistent” with what the government previously told the court when they said that the only changes were some classified documents have been removed and placeholders put in the documents.

The court filings were in response to a request from Walt Nauta, one of Trump’s two co-defendants in the federal case who is accused of helping the former president hide the materials from the FBI, for Judge Aileen Cannon for a delay in the trial as his lawyers are struggling to determine precisely where certain documents were retrieved from following the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.