This IS about a Trump lawyer made to testify to the Justice Dept. with audio and written information about the classified files recovering from Donald Trump’s property …
Trump TOLD the lawyer to tell the FBI and Justice Dept. that they had EVERYTHING….
The Special Councel is reporting FBI agents found MORE classified files after Trump told the attorneys falsehoods….This was MONTHS after he fought turning over those files….
The judge leaving the case states this lying could be the crime of ‘obstruction of justice’….
Prosecutors in the special counsel’s office have presented compelling preliminary evidence that former President Donald Trump knowingly and deliberately misled his own attorneys about his retention of classified materials after leaving office, a former top federal judge wrote Friday in a sealed filing, according to sources who described its contents to ABC News.
U.S. Judge Beryl Howell, who on Friday stepped down as the D.C. district court’s chief judge, wrote last week that prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith’s office had made a “prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations,” according to the sources, and that attorney-client privileges invoked by two of his lawyers could therefore be pierced.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in his handling of classified documents.
In her sealed filing, Howell ordered that Evan Corcoran, an attorney for Trump, should comply with a grand jury subpoena for testimony on six separate lines of inquiry over which he had previously asserted attorney-client privilege.
Sources added that Howell also ordered Corcoran to hand over a number of records tied to what Howell described as Trump’s alleged “criminal scheme,” echoing prosecutors. Those records include handwritten notes, invoices, and transcriptions of personal audio recordings….
Katilan Collins
@kaitlancollins
While you were sleeping, the Trump team met the midnight deadline & DOJ its 6 a.m. deadline. These extremely tight deadlines indicate the seriousness of this. Now we wait to see what Judges Nina Pillard, Michelle Childs & Florence Pan of the DC Circuit do.
Update……
Court Rules Trump Lawyer Must Turn Over Evidence
“A federal appeals court has ruled that a lawyer for Donald Trump must provide notes, transcripts and other evidence to prosecutors investigating how classified documents remained at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home months after a subpoena to return all sensitive files,” the Washington Post reports.
“The panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a brief order Wednesday afternoon directing the parties ‘to comply with the district court’s March 17, 2023, order to produce documents’ and ending an emergency hold on a ruling last week by a lower-court judge.”
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