It was a photo that instantly became one of the most infamous in presidential campaign history: The FBI’s snapshot of “Top Secret” documents seized in its unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump’s office at Mar-a-Lago.
The Mar-a-Lago classified documents photo instantly became a media sensation and kicked off a wave of political prosecutions of the former president.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has become the tip of the spear for the Biden administration’s election interference campaign against his campaign rival, finally admitted in a filing before Judge Aileen Cannon that the photo was effectively staged.
Justice reporter Julie Kelly, in a lengthy thread, explained how it is now a documented fact that the so-called Department of Justice staged the photo effectively as a campaign ad against the former president.
This is how DOJ in August 2022 described the files in
a filing to Judge Cannon with accompanying photo that went viral to make it appear that this was the original form of the documents seized by FBI.
This does not appear to be the truth–at all. It instead appears that the… pic.twitter.com/yGAgYJMZEt
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 4, 2024
“Remember the photo of ‘classified docs’