Ex-Prosecutor Charged With Stealing Trump Case Documents Authored by Jack Smith.

[rangerrebew]

Ex-Prosecutor Charged With Stealing Trump Case Documents Authored by Jack Smith.

A former federal prosecutor is facing charges after allegedly stealing part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report into the Department of Justice’s failed case against President Trump.

PULSE POINTS
❓ WHAT HAPPENED: A former federal prosecutor has been indicted for allegedly stealing a section of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his now-defunct criminal case against President Donald J. Trump.
📺 DETAIL: Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, a former federal prosecutor, has been accused of stealing a sealed portion of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the Department of Justice’s defunct criminal case against President Donald J. Trump. In the four-count indictment, she is accused of saving a section of the report on her government-provided computer under the file name “Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf” and emailing the files from her DOJ account to her personal account in December 2025. At the time of the alleged crime, Lineberger was working as a managing Assistant U.S. Attorney in Fort Pierce, Florida. The report was part of the now defunct-case alleging that President Trump retained classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The case against the President was dismissed by Aileen Cannon, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Cannon ruled that Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution. After the President’s comeback election in 2024, the DOJ abandoned its attempt to appeal the ruling, citing policy against pursuing the prosecution of sitting presidents.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents… This FBI will not hesitate to bring to account those who violated the trust of the American public in an investigation that should’ve never been brought to begin with.” – FBI Director Kash Patel
🎯 IMPACT: The charges against Lineberger, which include theft of government property and altering public records, validate concerns over officials’ handling of sensitive government materials. The indictment is likely to cast further doubt on the impartiality of the DOJ’s now-defunct case against President Trump. In February, it was revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), under former President Joe Biden, subpoenaed the phone records of President Trump’s staff and allies. “It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records—along with those of now White House chief of staff Susie Wiles—using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight,” said FBI Director Patel at the time.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/05/20/ex-prosecutor-charged-with-stealing-trump-case-documents-authored-by-jack-smith/

[massadvj]

Payback is a bitch.

It will be a real bitch if and when the Dems ever get control of the executive branch again. It will make the Spanish Inquisition pale in comparison.

Personally, I did not like lawfare when the left ran things, and I don't like it now that it is being done by my party. Trump's vindictive nature is like an infection that has overtaken the administration.

Overreach by one party can be very costly over the long term. The GOP is in power in large part because the Democrats overreached. But Trump shows no inclination toward temperance in either domestic or foreign policy, until the TACO. Bluster... TACO. Bluster... TACO. What a way to run a country.

 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Payback is a bitch.

It will be a real bitch if and when the Dems ever get control of the executive branch again. It will make the Spanish Inquisition pale in comparison.

Personally, I did not like lawfare when the left ran things, and I don't like it now that it is being done by my party. Trump's vindictive nature is like an infection that has overtaken the administration.

Overreach by one party can be very costly over the long term. The GOP is in power in large part because the Democrats overreached. But Trump shows no inclination toward temperance in either domestic or foreign policy, until the TACO. Bluster... TACO. Bluster... TACO. What a way to run a country.

To prosecute criminals is not a vindication.

It is adhering to the law.

The real overreach was done by Biden in pardoning known criminals

[massadvj]

To prosecute criminals is not a vindication.

It is adhering to the law.

The real overreach was done by Biden in pardoning known criminals

Neither James Comey nor Carmen Mercedes Lineberger stand a chance of conviction, and the prosecutors at DOJ know it. The purpose of these prosecutions is to spend millions of public dollars so that these private citizens will be forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend themselves.

It was wrong when it was done to us, and it is wrong for us to do it to them. The so-called "crimes" in both of these cases are absurdly weak.

[Cyber Liberty]

Neither James Comey nor Carmen Mercedes Lineberger stand a chance of conviction, and the prosecutors at DOJ know it. The purpose of these prosecutions is to spend millions of public dollars so that these private citizens will be forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend themselves.

It was wrong when it was done to us, and it is wrong for us to do it to them. The so-called "crimes" in both of these cases are absurdly weak.

I don't think the case against her is weak.  Did she copy confidential files?  Yes.  Did she attempt to hide them in an innocuous folder?  Yes.  Did she send the folder to her personal email?  Yes.  Did she send the folder to unauthorized recipients?  Yes.

[DB]

Either the law applies to everyone or it applies to no one. Anything in between is corruption by those who hold power.

[Cyber Liberty]

Either the law applies to everyone or it applies to no one. Anything in between is corruption by those who hold power.

I'm tired of Democrats getting away with everything while Republicans get charged with bogus crimes!

[massadvj]

I don't think the case against her is weak.  Did she copy confidential files?  Yes.  Did she attempt to hide them in an innocuous folder?  Yes.  Did she send the folder to her personal email?  Yes.  Did she send the folder to unauthorized recipients?  Yes.

This case will go about as far as the Leticia James case. It is bogus. What she did is routine for every person who works from home.

[Cyber Liberty]

This case will go about as far as the Leticia James case. It is bogus. What she did is routine for every person who works from home.

I used to work from home, and I never sent confidential files to my personal computer, I had a company-issued laptop.  I worked in R&D in the private sector and doing so would have been cause for instant firing.  You can't tell me copying confidential files to my own computer is SOP for government workers!

[massadvj]

I used to work from home, and I never sent confidential files to my personal computer, I had a company-issued laptop.  I worked in R&D in the private sector and doing so would have been cause for instant firing.  You can't tell me copying confidential files to my own computer is SOP for government workers!

She is not losing her job. She is being dragged through the courts, being charged with a criminal offense. Different thing.

"Confidential" is not the same as "Top Secret." Doing what she did might get you fired, but it won't usually get you prosecuted, unless you victimized a vengeful president who wants to get even with everyone who has wronged him. 

And yes, I would bet copying confidential files and emailing them to yourself is pretty common in government circles.

If you are going to go after your political enemies, you had better have a lot more than this. If it looks petty and vindictive to me, imagine what it will look like to a jury made up of liberals.

[Cyber Liberty]

She is not losing her job. She is being dragged through the courts, being charged with a criminal offense. Different thing.

"Confidential" is not the same as "Top Secret." Doing what she did might get you fired, but it won't usually get you prosecuted, unless you victimized a vengeful president who wants to get even with everyone who has wronged him. 

And yes, I would bet copying confidential files and emailing them to yourself is pretty common in government circles.

If you are going to go after your political enemies, you had better have a lot more than this. If it looks petty and indictive to me, imagine what it will look like to a jury made up of liberals.

If she broke the law, she should go to jail.  She won't, so it's sickening.  And I will never believe copying confidential files to personal machines is OK!