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NEW YORK CITY (WKRC) - An American Airlines flight turned around two hours in after a passenger called a flight attendant "waiter."

According to WECB, American Airlines Flight 2557 turned around after two hours of flying because a passenger called a steward "waiter." Per the outlet, the flight took off from New York on July 18, 2023, with a destination of Georgetown, Guyana.

According to The New York Post, the passenger, who had been flying business class, asked an attendant to help him put his luggage in an overhead bin because he had recently underwent surgery on his spine. Per the publication, the attendant allegedly replied, "No, I don't do that. I don't get paid that kind of money, but if you don't like it, there is always another airline."

Per The Post, another flight attendant eventually helped the passenger, identified as Joel Ghansham.

When the beverage service began, the attendant, who had allegedly refused to help Ghansham because of their wages, asked Ghansham if he'd like something to drink. Ghansham told Stabroek News "I didn't respond because I didn't want to cause a scene."

The attendant asked again and Ghansham, speaking to Stabroek News, said that he replied, "No thank you, waiter."

Per The Post, the attendant told Ghansham that he was not a waiter, adding that he had the power to turn the plane around. The Post reported that Ghansham told the attendant "You must be God, so you do it."

According to the publication, the pilot announced moments later that the flight would be returning to JFK Airport. According to WECB, Ghansham was removed from the plane at the airport and questioned by a TSA agent before he was allowed to leave.

American Airlines emailed The Post and initially described Ghansham as a "disruptive passenger," who forced the pilot to turn the plane around.

“Safety and security are our top priorities, and we thank our customers for their understanding and our team members for their professionalism in managing a difficult situation,” an American Airlines spokesperson told The Post.

Ghansham denied being a disruption, however.

“There was not a disruption. I never got up. There was not an argument, there was not a confrontation, nobody touched each other. He was wearing a mask. He wasn’t even loud. It was just his pride,” Ghansham said in the YouTuber interview, per The Post.

According to Stabroek News, Ghansham received an apology from American Airlines two days after the incident and was also provided 10,000 free miles as compensation.

“We are writing to follow up with you about the delay of flight AA2557 on July 18, 2023. We recognize that many of our customers’ important plans were significantly affected, and for that, we are very sorry,” the letter obtained by the outlet read.

Ghansham told Stabroek at the time that he would not accept American's apology.

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MY COMMENT: The "globalists' are determined to ram the WHO's "International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response" aka "Pandemic Treaty" down the throats of all the countries of the world. We in the US, can put a stop to this abrogation of our national sovereignty. Here's how:

Is The Economic System Being Destroyed On Purpose?
TYLER DURDEN ~ MAY 05, 2024

This post raises two important points. Ever since Technocracy set sail in the 1930s from Columbia University, it has been thwarted by the refusal of Capitalism and free market economics to die. This created a moral hazard to give them a push off the cliff. Some (Parky60 included) are getting the idea that the economy is being intentionally destroyed.

The first point is that the Cloward-Piven strategy is brought up. In 1966, Richard Cloward and Frances Piven cooked up this scheme when both were professors at Columbia University. Need I say more? The outcome would be Universal Basic Income, an original tenet of Technocracy.

The second point is China is moving on the world to displace the United States with its massive Belt and Road Initiative. As noted by many, including me, China has already morphed into a Technocracy and is intent on killing capitalism. In 2022, China was the second largest importer of Gold in the world. In 2023, China’s dwarfed the field as per this chart. Notice that the United States is not on this chart:

https://www.technocracy.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gold-2023.png

However, according to FXStreet:

There has long been speculation that China owns far more gold than it officially reveals. As Jim Rickards pointed out on Mises Daily back in 2015, many analysts believe that China keeps several thousand tons of gold “off the books” in a separate entity called the State Administration for Foreign Exchange (SAFE).

What does China (and the Central Bank system at large) want with silly old gold? Didn’t the Central Banks, including the BIS, tell us starting in the early 1970s that gold was obsolete as a monetary asset? Patrick Wood

In one of the most fascinating discussions I’ve had in a while, I spoke last weekend with my friend Andy Schectman about the state of the world, markets, geopolitics and the economy.

What started as a friendly catch-up quickly turned into delving into angles on the state of our nation that I had never before considered — specifically, Andy laying out one theory that started in the 1960’s that could explain the chaos that it appears our economy — and nation — is devolving into.

First, we talked about the bond market, excessive fiscal spending and why gold continues to be the answer. Andy told me: “I think it’s a lot deeper than that, too. I think that we have proven to the rest of the world, largely through weaponizing of the dollar, that if you don’t align ideologically with us, well, that’s even a bigger problem. So, yeah, when you look at what gold has done over the past 25 years, it’s outpaced the bond market, but it doesn’t have the counterparty risk.”

“And I think that’s really the big problem here,” he continued, explaining why he thinks the bond market will eventually lose its footing. “It’s counterparty risk on top of brain-dead monetary policy and as irresponsible a fiscal policy as you could ever imagine. So, yes, I do think it is. And I don’t know if 5% is the line in the sand. I mean, it just seems as though, according to Jim Willey, we can hand money to Ireland and the Caymans and the United Kingdom under the table to continue to, you know, continue the facade, if you will. as to who would be stupid enough to buy any treasuries of maturity, any U.S. bonds of length of maturity, 10-year or greater, who in their right mind would do that?”

Speaking about the Fed potentially cutting rates, Andy said: “Look, I think by cutting, we’ve lost all credibility at that point, complete and total credibility. And I don’t think there is any way that they can lower rates. I really don’t think that there is.”

“And I think there’s nothing but inflation and higher rates ahead of us. But if I had to guess, it will be range bound, you know, just like there was no inflation and then it was transitory and then it was structural, then it was gone, then it was back. It’ll be the same thing here,” he added.

As an example: “Well, the economy is a, you know, the economy is a little bit hotter than it was supposed to be. And also we’re not going to be higher for longer. And, you know, but we’re thinking of lowering and maybe we’ll do two rate cuts by the end of the day. Okay. Maybe one, well, maybe we’re not going to do it. They’re not going to do shit. And I don’t think they really can do much of anything.”

Andy says: “You know, they can’t really raise rates because we have to sell $14 trillion in bonds this year to retire the maturing debt and also pay the current bills. And a lot of this debt’s going to cost far more than the debt it’s replacing, which could lead to even more printing to cover that cost. So, you can’t really raise rates.”

Andy then told me about the “Cloward–Piven theory”, which many have never heard of before.

The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. The strategy aims to utilize “militant anti-poverty groups” to facilitate a “political crisis” by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and “redistributing income through the federal government”

The authors pinned their hopes on creating disruption within the Democratic Party, Wikipedia notes:

“Conservative Republicans are always ready to declaim the evils of public welfare, and they would probably be the first to raise a hue and cry. But deeper and politically more telling conflicts would take place within the Democratic coalition…Whites – both working class ethnic groups and many in the middle class – would be aroused against the ghetto poor, while liberal groups, which until recently have been comforted by the notion that the poor are few… would probably support the movement. Group conflict, spelling political crisis for the local party apparatus, would thus become acute as welfare rolls mounted and the strains on local budgets became more severe.”

Andy laid out how the theory makes all too much sense: “So what is the Fed going to do? Maybe they’re doing what they want to do, and that is to incentivize the reset and not at the hands of Powell or not at the hands of Janet Yellen, even though it really is, but a villain to blame it on. And I mean, I don’t know how else you can explain the stupidity. I mean, you would be a far better president and a far better, you know, head of the Federal Reserve or Treasury Secretary, and I mean that sincerely, I think anyone who listens to this would agree, just because you ooze common sense. Where is the common sense in any of the policy decisions of this government and of this Federal Reserve? Or is it too stupid to be stupid? And I’ll leave that up to you.”

Talking about the Treasury buying back bonds, and how that turns into pure debt monetization, Andy added: “They say, ‘And this is gonna happen in the next few days,’ but who will be the entity that will do the buying? Because the treasury is broke. It ain’t gonna be the treasury. So, who is it? It’s the New York Fed. And they’re gonna have to conjure up cash to buy those bonds. And while a good portion of the world is shunning our bonds, and for good reason, keeping in mind that we do need to sell almost 14 trillion this year to retire 9 trillion and maturing at higher rates, plus the current bills. You know, who’s going to do it? And this is debt monetization. This is the beginning to Weimar Republic. The Treasury says they’re going to do it, but they’re broke. So, it’ll be the Fed that will come up with the cash to do it.”

“You know, they’re looking to raise 4.3 trillion over 10 years by imposing the unrealized gain tax. And I thought your comment was brilliant when you said we could save a trillion just by not sending 100 billion a year to other nations for starters, right?”

“If you spend a hundred dollars every second of every day, it would take you almost 2,000 years to equal the 6.2 trillion the U.S. government has spent in just the last 12 months,” Andy said.

“And the point that you bring up about, you know, what would happen, well, the first thing what happens that everyone would sell. And they would sell before the thing got enacted and it would cripple. Think what Nvidia and think of what Bitcoin, all of those unrealized gains, think of the collapsing. And then your point, which I didn’t think about until I read your article, was spot on. These are the people who have enough money. Like I said, ‘fuck it’ to Minnesota. And I left my corporate office there. I left all my friends there. I left, you know, half my family there. And I said, ‘I’m out’ when they lost their mind. when they defunded the police, led the nation’s charge in defunding the police and let the third precinct, of which one of my best friends from childhood was the sergeant there, watched that third precinct burn down on TV. And then the governor had the audacity to raise income taxes to over 10% in Minnesota, for God’s sakes, where you freeze your ass off.”

Talking about the bifurcation of the global economy and China, Andy said: “Little by little, they continue to distance themselves from the system, slowly selling treasuries, slowly accumulating commodities, striking deals all around the world. You know, I focus a lot on precious metals.”

He adds: “Obviously, the Chinese are the biggest buyers of it and producers of it, but it’s not just precious metals. You know, with the Belt Road Initiative and the BRICS, they’re making relationships with all of these countries for everything from rare earths to soft commodities like corn and wheat and soybeans. They’re buying all of that, not from the US and Australia anymore. In fact, they just canceled big contracts with them in favor of buying them from Brazil, paying for it in Yuan, which is immediately convertible into gold on the Shanghai Gold Exchange. I don’t know how many people know this, but the Chinese bought the LME, the London Metals Exchange a few years ago. That’s not the LBMA where the precious metals are traded, but those are all the base metals that you would need to build an economy. And now they are warehousing these metals in China that are traded in London. See, they’re setting the stage and they are buying everything that you need to bust away from a country that’s lost its bearings.”

Thoughts on the Protest Industrial Complex
By: Christopher Chantrill

Who can forget the wise words of President Eisenhower:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the protest-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Alas, it is the way of humans to forget the wise words of their ancestors.

But how did this happen? How did our society get captured by a brutal and oppressive protest industrial complex? Ernest Hemingway knew: “How did you go woke? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

I blame Johannes Gutenberg and his printing press. It was the flooding of Europe with cheap books replacing expensive parchment scrolls that prompted the rise of the educated class and led to the Age of Revolution. But then what? What happened after the educated class came to power in the 19th century?

The answer comes from Gaetano Mosca, member of the Italian school of elitism, and his book The Ruling Class. Ruling classes do not rule by power alone, he wrote, but invent a moral or legal basis for their power. Mosca called this a “political formula.”

Rulers never say: “I’m in it for me; get used to it, peasant.” Oh no. They are always serving the people, or the nation.

Our present rulers justify their power with their advocacy for marginalized communities and their benign support of movements of the oppressed demonstrating for justice.

But when did it start? With Babeuf, after the French Revolution? Saint-Simon, advocating for the needs of the industrial class? Fourier and his Phalanstères? Marx and his communism that would stop the “immiseration” of the workers?

Never mind: by the end of the 19th century all the right people were agreed that the way to raise up the workers was by pulling down the robber barons.

However, a curious thing happened on the way to the just society. In the cities of the United States, social scientists like William M. Tweed discovered that the lower class identified not so much by class as by race and national origin. So the educated class adapted its class ideology into an ethnic ideology.

That worked like gangbusters when it was time for the Democrats to dump the Southern white trash and fight for black civil rights and smash the racist regime of Jim Crow.

But now I have to tell you a sad story. At some point in the aftermath of the movement for black civil rights, the mass movement of educated people fulfilled Eric Hoffer’s prophecy and became a racket.

Welcome to the Age of the Fake Victim, where the victims hail not from the suffering lower classes, but from the tippy-top educated class.

Seriously, can you blame our liberal friends? After a century and more of helping up the helpless, it was time to deal a few cards to themselves.

So our feminist friends, particularly educated-class women, decided they were victims. But I say they never were.

Likewise, gays have only experienced modest victimhood. Pride.com mentions the following gay Hollywood actors: Marlene Dietrich, Cesar Romero, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, Rock Hudson, Tallulah Bankhead, etc. Wow, imagine how they suffered!

And transgenders? The only people suffering on the transgender front seem to be women: on the sports field, in the public restroom, and J.K. Rowling.

When you think about it, it makes complete sense. Of course, our liberal friends would eventually decide that they were the real victims!

But the really delicious thing about fighting for the victims is you get to make like a rioter.

All down the ages, we are assured, helpless victims, faced with utter destitution, were forced to riot in the streets. The Jacquerie, the Fronde, The Vendée, The Luddites, the Swing riots, the Whiskey rebellion. What fun they had! Why shouldn’t lefty students get in on the action!

Back in the day, upper-class youth put on fancy uniforms and flourished sabers and came home as war heroes. Why shouldn’t today’s tippy-top youth at least wear fashionable keffiyeh scarves just like genuine freedom fighters!

Of course, experts agree, all such protests are completely different than the January 6 armed insurrection, a day that will live in infamy.

The last time we had genuine protests for genuine victims was the civil rights era. And I am sure that those Freedom Rider activists had no interest in teaching southern white trash a lesson.

I feel a certain compassion for today’s tippy-top elite students. All their lives they have been carefully taught that the only way to live a meaningful life is as an Ally of the Oppressed against the White Oppressors -- or white racists, or imperialists, or settler-colonialists, or however the fashion changes. So what else can they do?

Last week, it seemed that America’s frat boys had had it with the keffiyeh fashion show. I wonder who wins in the battle of Fratties vs. Wokies?

Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near
Brandon Smith ~ April 30, 2024

World reserve status allows for amazing latitude in terms of monetary policy. The Federal Reserve understands that there is constant demand for dollars overseas as a means to more easily import and export goods. The dollar’s petro-status also makes it essential for trading oil globally. This means that the central bank of the US has been able to create fiat currency from thin air to a far higher degree than any other central bank on the planet while avoiding the immediate effects of hyperinflation.

Much of that cash as well as dollar denominated debt (physical and digital) ends up in the coffers of foreign central banks, international banks and investment firms where it is held as a hedge or used to adjust the exchange rates of other currencies for trade advantage. As much as one-half of the value of all U.S. currency is estimated to be circulating abroad.

World reserve status along with various debt instruments allowed the US government and the Fed to create tens of trillions of dollars in new currency after the 2008 credit crash, all while keeping inflation under control (sort of). The problem is that this system of stowing dollars overseas only lasts so long and eventually the consequences of overprinting come home to roost.

The Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 established the framework for the rise of the US dollar and while the benefits are obvious, especially for the banks, there are numerous costs involved. Think of world reserve status as a “deal with the devil” – You get the fame, you get the fortune, you get the hot girlfriend and the sweet car, but one day the devil is coming to collect and when he does, he’s going to take EVERYTHING, including your soul.

Unfortunately, I suspect the time is coming soon for the US and it may be in the form of a brand-new Bretton Woods-like system that removes the dollar as world reserve and replaces it with a new digital basket structure. Global banks are essentially admitting to the plan for a complete overhaul of the dollar-based financial world and the creation of a CBDC-centric system built on “unified ledgers.”

There have been three recent developments all announced in succession that suggest the dollar’s replacement is imminent (before this decade is over).

The IMF’s XC Model – A Centralized Policy For CBDCs

The IMF’s XC platform was released as a theoretical model in November of 2022 and matches closely with their long-discussed concept of a global Special Drawing Rights basket, only in this case it would tie together all CBDCs under one umbrella along with “legacy currencies.”

It’s promoted as a policy structure to make cross-border payments in CBDCs “easier” and this model is focused primarily on currency exchanges between governments and central banks. Of course, it places the IMF as the middle-man in terms of controlling the flow of digital transactions. The IMF suggests that the XC platform would make the transition from legacy currencies to CBDCs less complicated for the various nations involved.

As the IMF noted in a discussion on centralized ledgers in 2023:

“We could end up in a world where we have connected entities to some degree, but some entities and some countries that are excluded. And as a global and multilateral institution, we’re sort of aiming to, you know, provide a basic connectivity, a basic set of rules and governance that is truly multilateral and inclusive. So, I think that is—the ambition is to aim for innovation that is compatible with policy goals and that is inclusive relative to the broad membership of, say, the IMF.”

To translate, decentralized systems are bad. “Inclusivity” (collectivism) is good. And the IMF wants to work in tandem with other globalist institutions to be the facilitators (controllers) of that economic collectivism.

Bank For International Settlements Unified Ledger

Not more than a day after the IMF announced their XC platform goals, the BIS announced their plans for a unified ledger for all CBDCs called the ‘BIS Universal Ledger.’ The BIS specifically notes that the project is meant to “inspire trust in central bank digital currencies” while “overcoming the fragmentation of current tokenization efforts.”

While the IMF is focused on international policy control, the BIS is pursuing the technical aspects for the globalization of CBDCs. They make it clear in their white papers that a cashless society is in fact the end game and that digital transactions need to be monitored by a centralized entity in order to keep money “secure.” As the BIS argues in their extensive overview of Unified Ledgers:

“Today, the monetary system stands at the cusp of another major leap. Following dematerialisation and digitalisation, the key development is tokenisation – the process of representing claims digitally on a programmable platform. This can be seen as the next logical step in digital recordkeeping and asset transfer.”

“…The blueprint envisages these elements being brought together in a new type of financial market infrastructure (FMI) – a “unified ledger”. The full benefits of tokenisation could be harnessed in a unified ledger due to the settlement finality that comes from central bank money residing in the same venue as other claims. Leveraging trust in the central bank, a shared venue of this kind has great potential to enhance the monetary and financial system.

There are three major assertions made by the BIS in their program – First, the digitization of money is unavoidable and cash is going to disappear primarily because it makes moving money easier. Second, decentralized payment methods are unacceptable because they are “risky” and only central banks are qualified and “trustworthy” enough to mediate the exchange of money. Third, the use of Unified Ledgers is largely designed to track and trace and even investigate all CBDC transactions, for the public good, of course.

The BIS system deals far more in the realm of private transactions than the IMF example. It is the technical foundation for the centralization of all CBDCs, governed in part by the BIS and the IMF, and it is scheduled to go into wider use in the next two years. There are already multiple nations testing the BIS ledger today. It’s important to understand that whoever acts as the middle-man in the process of the global exchange of money is going to have all the power, over governments and over the populace.

If every movement of wealth is monitored, from the shift of billions between governments to the payment of a few dollars from an individual to a retailer, then every aspect of trade can be throttled on the whims of the observer.

SWIFT Cross Border Project – Another Way To Control The Behavior Of Countries

As we’ve seen with the attempt to use the SWIFT payment network as a bludgeon against Russia, there is an ulterior motive for globalists to have a high-speed large scale monetary transaction hub. Again, this is all about centralization, and whoever controls the hub has the means to control trade…to a point.

Locking Russia out of SWIFT has done minimal damage to their economy exactly because there are alternative methods for transferring money to keep the flow of trade running. However, under a CBDC based global monetary umbrella, it would be impossible for any country to work outside the boundaries. It’s not only about the ease of shutting a nation out of the network, it’s also about having the power to immediately block the transfer of funds on the receiving end of the exchange.

Meaning, any funds from any Russian source could be tracked and cut off before they are allowed to get into the hands of, say, a recipient in China or India. Once all governments are completely under the thumb of a centralized monetary system, a centralized ledger and a centralized exchange hub, they will never be able to rebel and this control will trickle down to the general population.

I would also remind readers that the majority of nations are going right along with this program. China is most eager to join the global currency scheme. Russia is still part of the BIS, but their involvement in CBDCs is still unclear. The point is, don’t expect the BRICS to counteract the new monetary order, it’s not going to happen.

CBDCs Automatically Require The End Of The Dollar As World Reserve

So what do all these globalist projects with CBDCs have to do with the dollar and its venerated position as the world reserve currency? The bottom line is this: A unified CBDC system completely excludes the need or use-case for a world reserve currency. The Unified Ledger model takes all CBDCs and homogenizes them into a puddle of liquidity, each CBDC growing similar in characteristics over a short period of time.

The advantages of using the dollar disappear in this scenario and the value of currencies becomes relative to the middle-man. In other words, the IMF, BIS and other related institutions dictate the properties of CBDCs and thus there is no distinguishing aspect of any CBDC that makes one more valuable than the others.

Sure, some countries might be able to separate their currency to a point with superior production or superior technology, but the old model of having a big military as a way to ensure Forex and trade favors is dead. Eventually the globalists will make two predictable arguments:

1) “A world reserve currency under the control of one nation is unfair and we as global bankers need to make the system “more equal.””

2) “Why have a reserve currency at all when all transactions are moderated under our ledger anyway? The dollar is no longer any easier to use for international trade than any other CBDC, right?”

Finally, the dollar has to die because it’s an integral part of the “old world” of material exchange. The globalists desire a cashless society because it is an easily controlled society. Think of the covid lockdowns and the attempts at vaccine passports – If they had a cashless system in place at that time, they would have gotten everything they wanted. Refuse to take the experimental vaccine? We’ll just shut off your digital accounts and you will starve.

This was even partially attempted (think Canadian trucker protests), but with physical cash there’s always a way around a digital embargo. Without physical cash you have no other options unless you plan to live completely off the land and barter goods and services (a way of life most people in the first world need a lot of time to get used to).

I believe that a sizable percentage of the American populace will go to war before they accept a cashless society, but in the meantime, there is still the inevitability of a dollar crash to deal with. Globalist organizations are pushing CBDCs to go active VERY quickly, and as this happens along with the centralized ledgers the traditional dollar will swiftly lose favor. This means that those trillions in greenbacks held overseas will start flooding back into America all at once causing an inflationary disaster well beyond what we are witnessing today.

As much as the economy has benefited from world reserve status in the past it will suffer equally as the dollar fades, only to be replaced by a framework even worse than fiat. That is, unless there’s a dramatic upheaval that removes the globalist order from the equation entirely…

Former President Donald Trump argued that special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case against him should be tossed after prosecutors wrote that they misled a judge about the order of items in an evidence box.

In a post on Truth Social over the weekend, President Trump called for the arrest of Jack Smith and argued that the case should be thrown out based on the new court filing.
It came after Mr. Smith’s team wrote that that the order of items within a box was “not the same” as they appear in digital photographs of materials after the FBI obtained those boxes from President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in August 2022.
“Since the boxes were seized and stored, appropriate personnel have had access to the boxes for several reasons, including to comply with orders issued by this Court in the civil proceedings noted above, for investigative purposes, and to facilitate the defendants’ review of the boxes,” Mr. Smith’s team told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon last week.
They added that there are “some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.”

His team also acknowledged in a footnote that federal prosecutors effectively misled the court after telling the judge that the evidence was exactly the same when it was seized. “The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,” the footnote said.

Mr. Smith’s team provided multiple “possible explanations” as to why the documents were rearranged after seizing the boxes from Mar-a-Lago, according to the filing.

“There are several possible explanations, including the above-described instances in which the boxes were accessed, as well as the size and shape of certain items in the boxes possibly leading to movement of items,” they wrote. “For example, the boxes contain items smaller than standard paper such as index cards, books, and stationary, which shift easily when the boxes are carried, especially because many of the boxes are not full.”

But President Trump wrote that Mr. Smith’s filing is effectively an admission of what he has “been saying happened since the Illegal RAID on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach ... that he and his team committed blatant Evidence Tampering by mishandling the very Boxes they used as a pretext to bring this Fake Case.”

He then called for the case to be immediately dropped.

President Trump has pleaded not guilty to 40 charges connected to allegations that he illegally retained classified documents at his home after leaving in January 2021 and obstructed officials’ attempts to retrieve them. Two of his aides, Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, have also been charged in the case.

Legal group Judicial Watch also suggested that Mr. Smith’s classified documents case against President Trump should be tossed after the admission.

Judicial Watch head Tom Fitton wrote on X that prosecutors’ latest filing suggesting that there was “evidence tampering” involved is “yet more reason to throw out this sham prosecution.”
He said that the filing also included an FBI “admission” that the agency was “completely screwing with the classified documents.”

His comment pointed to a statement from the FBI that said that its agents had “created an index to correlate the documents with classification markings to codes,” labeled the cover sheets in the boxes, and “generally replaced the handwritten sheets with classified cover sheets annotated with the index code” after the boxes were brought to the Washington field office after they were taken from Mar-a-Lago, according to the court filing.

“In many but not all instances, the FBI was able to determine which document with classification markings corresponded to a particular placeholder sheet,” it added.

Last week, President Trump’s lawyers wrote to Judge Cannon that the case should be dismissed, arguing that Mr. Smith and his team have an “improper political animus” against him. He said that White House lawyers worked with the National Archives and Records Administration when it referred the allegations to the Department of Justice and that it is an attempt to ensure that President Trump doesn’t get reelected.