A few weeks after the armed FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, the Department of Justice released a stunning photograph depicting alleged contraband seized from Donald Trump's Palm Beach estate that day; the image showed colored sheets representing scary classification levels attached to files purportedly discovered in Trump's private office.
Certain of the documents had colored cover sheets indicating their classification status.
In what must be considered not only an act of doctoring evidence but willfully misleading the American people into believing the former president is a criminal and threat to national security, agents involved in the raid attached the cover sheets to at least seven files to stage the photo.
After being busted recently by defense attorneys for mishandling evidence in the case, Bratt had to fess up about how the cover sheets actually ended up on the documents.
"[If] the investigative team found a document with classification markings, it removed the document, segregated it, and replaced it with a placeholder sheet.
FBI agents took it upon themselves to paperclip the sheets to documents-something evident given the uniform nature of how each cover sheet is clipped to each file in the photo-laid them on the floor, and snapped a picture for political posterity.
In other words, in their zeal to stage a phony photo using official classified cover sheets, FBI agents might have failed to accurately match the placeholder sheet with the appropriate document.
https://www.declassified.live/p/the-dojs-doctored-crime-scene-photo
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