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Their claim was that while they were handling the documents they added the papers since there were several boxes haphazardly organized and they wanted a cover letter to keep track of which documents went together, and if you were doing that you'd need to mark them confidential. Then they forgot to remove them when taking pictures. That first sentence seems sensible to me as something you would need to do. The second yes I get is extremely suspicious.
Because quite frankly we have the timeline of events and it involves a year and a half of trying to get Trump to turn over everything. Unless the media and government are making up literally everything, if even half of what was claimed is true it would be plenty to damn anyone else. You can speculate all you want that they would have tried to prosecute Trump if he had cooperated, and hypotheticals are unfalsifiable so I could never disprove that. But the thing is, I don't have to. There are so many things stacked against Trump regarding this issue that even if it were 100% true that Smith staged a falsified photo op intentionally my conclusion would be that Smith is corrupt and did something completely pointless because Trump blatantly tried to hide classified docs. The only facts required to establish the latter is true are that he was asked to return the docs and that a year and a half later they were still finding boxes of documents that would be pretty damn hard to genuinely miss. And Trump's defense wasn't contesting that.
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