Trump Lawyers Ask Judge to Dismiss Documents Case Over Moved Evidence

Published on June 12, 2024

Former President Donald Trump this week filed a motion to dismiss his classified documents case, claiming that officials altered exculpatory evidence. Prosecutors several weeks ago disclosed that the order of materials inside boxes of evidence was moved around. A motion filed by his attorneys late on June 10 asks U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to scrap the case, which alleges that the former president illegally hoarded classified and top secret materials after leaving office in early 2021. The “original order of documents within the boxes” was not preserved after they were obtained, the motion says. “There are no photographs or logs documenting the nature in which the allegedly classified documents were commingled with personal effects and out of plain view,” his attorneys continued, adding that the evidence “was materially exculpatory” about allegations that President Trump violated the Espionage Act....

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