DOJ drops classified documents case against Trump’s Florida co-defendants

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The Justice Department moved on Wednesday to terminate its case against President Donald Trump‘s two co-defendants in Florida, a reversal after the department, under special counsel Jack Smith, had attempted to keep the classified documents charges against the pair alive.

A Florida-based federal prosecutor filed the brief motion asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to toss out its appeal in the case. Smith had withdrawn his charges against Trump after he won the election, but the former special counsel kept intact Walt Nauta’s and Carlos De Oliveira’s charges of obstructing a federal investigation.

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