- Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:26 pm
#135013
Don't forget the most damning evidence of obstruction:
"On June 3, Trump’s team turned over a binder containing 38 classified documents — and swore there were no more to be found.
We also learned about another meeting between government investigators and Trump’s team that occurred at Mar-a-Lago on June 3 of this year. That meeting only came after the DOJ sought a grand jury subpoena on May 11 having discovered through the FBI investigation that “dozens of additional boxes” remained there.
On June 3, three FBI agents and a DOJ attorney arrived at Mar-a-Lago and met with a Trump attorney and his custodian of records for his postpresidential office. The pair handed over a single Redweld envelope or binder that was double wrapped in tape.
They also handed over a document, reportedly signed by Trump attorney Christina Bobb in her capacity as custodian (the signature was blacked out in the unsealed court filing), in which the Trump representative certified that in response to the May 11 subpoena, a “diligent search was conducted of the boxes that were moved to the White House to Florida” and that they were handing over everything relevant they had found.
The Trump attorney told the investigators that all the documents they had found were inside a storage room at Mar-a-Lago, and “represented” that there weren’t any other records stored in offices or other rooms at the estate.
But investigators also said that “critically” the Trump attorney “expressly prohibited government personnel from opening or looking inside any of the boxes that remained in the storage room, giving no opportunity for the government to confirm that no documents with classification markings remained.”-Buzzfeed
And then on August 8th the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago and got another 15 boxes of more than 100 classified documents that Trump had lied about not having.
"Officials believe Trump’s team misled them and has not been cooperating.
The DOJ makes it crystal clear in the filing that they think they have been lied to — and this is where things get potentially very bad not just for Trump, but also for his team and lawyers.
Prosecutors contend that the location where the FBI agents found the additional documents — in the storage room and Trump’s office — as well as the large number of documents discovered disproves the Trump team’s sworn claim that they had conducted a “diligent search” and were handing over everything.
“The [FBI] search cast serious doubt on the claim in the certification (and now in the [Trump motion for a special master]) that there had been ‘a diligent search’ for records responsive to the grand jury subpoena,” the DOJ officials wrote.
The DOJ even notes that some of the recovered documents, as evidenced in the photograph that was shared, even featured colored cover sheets that clearly indicated they were classified, so they could not have been hard to miss.
“That the FBI, in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the ‘diligent search’ that the former President’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made in the June 3 certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter,” the DOJ added."-Buzzfeed
- By Clownkicker