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On Friday, Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith submitted a 67-page filing to the US District Court in the Southern District of Florida, where former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial over alleged mishandling of classified documents is scheduled to take place later this year. The filing takes Trump and his lawyers to task for its “pervasively false narrative” concerning the case itself. In his tweet of the filing Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney noted that Smith detailed how the government took a “cautious” and “incremental approach” to obtaining presidential document…

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