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Former President Donald Trump filed a motion Thursday night to dismiss his classified documents case in Florida. The former president has been charged with 40 counts in the Southern District of Florida, alleging that he unlawfully retained national defense information and then attempted to obstruct the federal investigation into his handling of the material. Special counsel Jack Smith, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 to oversee two Trump-related investigations, accused Trump of knowingly transferring sensitive government records with classified markings from the White Hou…