New Special Counsel Makes 1st Move, Challenging Claim From Trump Team

Newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith, in a Nov. 24 letter to a federal appeals court, challenged an assertion by lawyers for former President Donald Trump in a classified-documents case.
It was Smith’s first public move since being tasked with leading the investigation into whether the former president violated the Espionage Act and other federal laws with Trump’s handling of certain records, including records with classified markings.
The assertion by Trump’s attorneys is “incorrect,” Smith said in a one-page letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. He was responding to Trump’s attorneys, who had invoked a case that involves materials seized from Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who had served as Trump’s lawyer….}