I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!
Federal judge found ‘strong evidence’ of crimes before Trump was charged in classified documents case
FTA: Months before Donald Trump was indicted for mishandling classified documents, a federal judge said that investigators had “strong evidence” that the former president “intended” to hide classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, according to newly released court documents.
... “Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago,” Howell wrote in March 2023.
Why make excuses when you can just lie?
Judge said that Trump used his attorney as a ‘front man’ to obstruct probe [emphasis in original]
Trump clearly had a plan for these documents; most likely a plan to enrich himself by selling American secrets to Russians, Saudis, and others. To wit:
... Howell recounted Trump’s actions over the course of several months while the federal government sought to retrieve the sensitive documents taken from the White House.
Trump “deliberately curtailed his staff’s efforts to comply” with the National Archives’ initial efforts to retrieve the documents, she wrote.
“The former president’s misdirection of NARA was apparently a dress rehearsal for his actions in response to the May 11, 2022 subpoena,” Howell said.
Twenty-one of the 32 national security documents Trump is accused of criminally mishandling were in the former president’s possession August 8, 2022, the date of the Mar-a-Lago FBI search.
That means that Trump’s team in this newly available motion to suppress is seeking to cut out from the case those 21 documents–and thus their related charges–and the hundreds of other classified records around them, plus the part of the case accusing Trump of obstruction of justice that is built around Corcoran.
Aileen Cannon's motivation for preventing Trump's being tried for these offenses is obviously that she knows that the facts unambiguously demonstrate that he committed treason.
All of Trump's minions, including Cannon, are betting their lives on the hope that he'll get away with it, and that they'll profit from having served as his minions.
What they aren't smart enough to realize is that, to Trump, loyalty is a one-way arrangement. Just as he never pays his contractors, he never returns the loyalty.
#Trump #Treason #Documents #MAL
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/mar-a-lago-documents-walt-nauta-donald-trump/index.html
