Trump Claims Special Counsel ‘Planted’ Classified Documents

Former President Donald Trump is issuing a new defense against the charges he is facing for his handling of classified documents.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump took aim at the special counsel overseeing his case, Jack Smith, as he wrote, “This is the Thug, over turned consistently and unanimously in big cases, that Biden and his CORRUPT Injustice Department stuck on me.”

“He’s a Radical Right Lunatic and Trump Hater, as are all his friends and family, who probably ‘planted’ information in the ‘boxes’ given to them,” he claimed.

Finally, Trump insisted, “They taint everything that they touch, including our Country, which is rapidly going to HELL!”

Smith hit Trump with 37 charges in the case, including 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, one count of corruptly concealing a document or record, one count of concealing a document in a federal investigation, and one count related to making false statements.

The indictment states, “The classified documents Trump stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.”