Special Counsel Jack Smith's latest filing shared new photos taken at Mar-a-Lago and showing classified documents Donald Trump is accused of taking from the White House strewn messily across a bathroom floor.
Trump is on trial in Florida for taking the documents, refusing to return them and attempting to obstruct the investigation into their removal.
"The photos you showed came from a motion overnight by [special counsel] Jack Smith that is not the subject of these hearings today, but maybe the subject of a future hearing about so-called spoilage, about whether the FBI essentially messed up that evidence such that it should be thrown out," NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian said on MSNBC Tuesday,.
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"It's a really strong motion by the special counsel arguing that that argument is ridiculous because these documents were pell-mell in Mar-a-Lago in boxes in no particular order and some of them already spilled out onto the bathroom floor before the FBI got there.
One photo appears to show stacked boxes in a closet that had toppled over, spilling out onto the floor. Above them hung what appeared to be dry-cleaning.
Others were stacked more neatly against the wall in plastic tubs and long boxes. Of that photo, national security expert Marcy Wheeler said, "This is a picture of where some of the documents charged against Trump were found. (3 were in the leatherbound box in his office, 10 were found in Box A-73, not shown in picture). Box with rectangle is where FVEY doc spilled in December 2021 was found."
FVEY stands for "The Five Eyes," which ensures that documents can be seen only by representatives of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
In another location, where the carpet was the same as Trump's office, an open box sat on the floor next to what appeared to be momentos and two boxes of Diet Coke bottles.
Wheeler also noted that a nuclear weapons document was apparently found "stashed under bubble wrap and a Christmas pillow."
"And fully 10 of the documents charged were found under some bubble wrap and a Christmas pillow in this box, which would have been found in the storage room, perhaps on the opposing wall to the picture above," she said in a write-up Tuesday. "That means that one of the documents stashed under the bubble wrap and the Christmas pillow, charged as Count 19, was classified Formerly Restricted under the Atomic Energy Act, meaning it pertains to U.S. nuclear weapons."
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