# FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024

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**Created:** [August 8, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329 "2022-08-08T23:18:32Z")\
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I know nothing about the law, so I’ll ask our resident lawyerly-type people (like @Dinsdale and @Moriarty) to weigh in on this.

According to [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/03/mar-a-lago-trump-classified-documents-00156124), Jack Smith has admitted that some of the files and boxes taken from Mar-A-Lago were inadvertently jumbled and reordered.

The Right-wing twitterati is claiming that this is evidence tampering, and that Smith should face prosecution for this.

How big a deal is something like this in practical terms? Is this a fairly significant issue, or is this just another example of things being blown way out of proportion because it has Trump’s name attached to it?

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