2 min readThe afternoon matinee of the drama The Jack Smith Files came to us courtesy of Representative Jamie Raskin through a letter he sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi. From Reuters:
The records, handed over by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the Republican-led panel’s probe into former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump, show FBI investigators said in a 2023 memo that the classified documents kept by Trump after he left office were “pertinent to his business interests” and were found commingled with other documents created later, U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin said.
Some of the classified documents were also “so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them,” while one box of documents was scanned, stored on a Trump aide’s laptop for nearly two years and uploaded to a cloud, raising further security concerns, Raskin added. The newly released information also showed that Trump apparently took classified documents on a June 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club and showed a classified map to then top campaign official Susie Wiles and potentially others, according to his letter. Wiles now serves as White House chief of staff.
When Senator Chuck Grassley’s released these files in an attempt to show that Smith’s investigations were an illegitimate “weaponization” of the justice system, he may have performed an all-time own goal.
“This glimpse into the trove of evidence behind the cover-up reveals a President of the United States who may have sold out our national security to enrich himself,” Raskin wrote in a letter sent on Tuesday to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. The release of the documents to the congressional committee may have also violated a gag order imposed by the Trump-appointed federal judge in the case, he added.
The gang that couldn’t smear straight.
