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Special counsel Jack Smith is going further than he has before in accusing former President Donald Trump and his attorneys of being “conspiracy theorists” in their arguments against the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Monday. This comes as Smith is attempting to stave off a sweeping discovery request in that case that goes far beyond what an ordinary criminal defendant would, asking for huge troves of federal communications in search of evidence that the charges for stealing and hoarding national defense information were fa…