Trump lawyers accuse Jack Smith of hindering review of video evidence in classified records case

Former President Trump's lawyers are accusing special counsel Jack Smith of hindering a review of video evidence in Trump's classified records case.

His lawyers argued that the Smith's office has "failed to provide a comprehensive set of functional video that defense counsel need in order to properly investigate critical facts in this case, and it is evident from the SCO’s many 'key clips' that it was able to effectively use the video it obtained."

According to a court filing released on Tuesday, defense counsel had explained that a "full set of functional video is necessary to understand how the SCO allegedly located additional classified documents in the Mar-a-Lago storage room during the August 8, 2022, search warrant execution after counsel for President Trump searched the same room in early June and directed that an additional lock be installed in mid-June." 

To date, according to the filing, defense counsel has been "left with an inconsistent, unreliable, and partial production of an amount of video that would take a substantial amount of time to view under the best of circumstances."

The lawyers said that the "defendants request that the court require the government to provide a complete set of operational and unzipped and/or not compressed video files."