WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi might have unintentionally given Democrats a tool to fight back against President Trump. She accidentally released a big secret memo from Jack Smith, a special investigator, which showed that Trump’s handling of classified documents had a motive linked to his business interests.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told that the memo was released by mistake, and he criticized the Justice Department, saying, “The Justice Department only tells the truth by accident.”
The 2023 progress memo from former Special Counsel Jack Smith said, “Trump had classified documents that were related to his business — showing he had a reason to keep them.”
In a harsh letter to Bondi, reviewed by MS NOW, Raskin said, “These new details suggest that Donald Trump took documents so sensitive that only six people in the whole U.S. government had access to them.
The documents he took were connected to his business interests.”
He also said, “This look at the evidence behind the cover-up shows a President who may have put our national security at risk to make more money for himself.
Trump was charged with 37 felony counts in 2023 for allegedly keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, but the charges were dropped in 2024.
The White House responded by calling Raskin a person with “zero credibility,” and said, “President Trump did nothing wrong.”
Raskin said he hasn’t read the full Smith report, but he believes Trump has turned the presidency into a private money-making operation.
He also treats all public documents like they’re his own.
“That’s what led to the document case.
This small look into how he treated some of the documents shows that he sees even the most top-secret documents in the country as his personal property to do with as he wants,” he said.
Raskin also called for making Smith’s report public and warned of an upcoming “reckoning with the reality of this massive corruption of the government.”
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