The FBI does not believe it has recovered all of the classifed documents that Donald Trump stole and took with him after his failed coup d’état. Mediaite reports that there is good reason for the FBI’s belief that Trump is lying about the documents he stole and where they might be found. WATCH: Trump Boards … Read more
Quinta Jurecic, Natalie K. Orpett and Benjamin Wittes write at Lawfare blog, Everything Wrong With Judge Cannon’s Ruling (excerpt): Judge Cannon’s opinion actually defies defense. It is an epic mess, one that manages to do violence to a remarkable number of distinct areas of law in an admirable economy of only 24 pages. The opinion is … Read more
Donald Trump’s incompetent lawyers made a critical mistake: they asked a judge to make the Department of Justice explain why they executed a search warrant at the failed Coup leader’s home in exile at Mar-a-Lago. The Trump-friendly judge whom they went forum shopping for agreed to the request (Judge Aileen Cannon is not the magistrate … Read more
The relevant statute here is 18 U.S. Code § 1924 – Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material: (a) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, … Read more
Donald Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran, drafted a statement which Trump’s Lawyer Christina Bobb (formerly an OANN TV host who promoted Trump’s stolen election lie and the Arizona “Fraudit”), who is said to be the custodian of the documents, signed. It asserted that, to the best of her knowledge, all classified material that was there had been returned, … Read more