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Donald Trump says 5 November will be ‘Christian Visibility Day’

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Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has urged US district judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Florida, to reject the Republican presidential candidate’s contention that he had any claim to personal ownership over the boxes of top secret files reclaimed by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.

The former president refused to return the documents to the National Archives when requested, leading Mr Smith to issue a federal indictment, with the special counsel now calling on Judge Cannon to ignore Mr Trump’s claim that he designated the information “personal” while president as “pure fiction”.

Elsewhere, Mr Trump is suing his fellow co-founders of the parent company behind Truth Social, former Apprentice contestants Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss, to try to wrestle ownership of the company from them.

The candidate also returned to the campaign trail in Michigan and Wisconsin on Tuesday, where he revived his “bloodbath” rhetoric on illegal immigrants and attacked President Joe Biden on everything from the border to golf.

Mr Trump also warned that the country would “cease to exist” if he lost November’s election, proclaimed a “Christian Visibility Day” and compared himself to notorious gangster Al Capone.

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3 hours ago Florida classified documents case: Smith urges judge to dismiss Trump’s ‘pure fiction’

In a late-night filing on Tuesday, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith urged US district judge Aileen Cannon, overseeing Trump’s classified documents case in Florida, to reject his contention that he had any claim to personal ownership over the boxes of top secret files reclaimed by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 after the former president refused to return them to the National Archives when requested.

Smith argued that Judge Cannon accepting Trump’s argument that he had the power to designate the documents as personal would not only be “pure fiction” but would be “meritless and fatally undermined” by the evidence the government had gathered as part of its case.

The special counsel cites as evidence his interviews with Trump’s own Presidential Records Act representatives and “numerous” high-ranking White House officials, none of whom said they “had heard Trump say that he was designating records as personal”.

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