'Multiple Secret Service agents' are 'expected to testify' in Trump documents probe: Fox News

Brad Reed
April 03, 2023



Donald Trump (Photo by Saul Loeb for AFP)


The investigation into former President Donald Trump's handling of top-secret government documents is heating up, as Fox News' Bret Baier is reporting that special counsel Jack Smith has now subpoenaed members of Trump's Secret Service entourage.

"FOX News is told multiple U.S. Secret Service agents connected to Former President Donald Trump have been subpoenaed & are expected to testify before the D.C. grand jury likely on Friday," Baier reports. "The grand jury appearances are related to the Special Counsel Jack Smith probe into the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago."

It is not known what the Secret Service members will be asked, although they may have been direct witnesses in seeing how Trump decided to respond to a government subpoena requesting he return all documents with classified markings in his possession to the government.

Investigators on Smith's team have reportedly amassed evidence that Trump deliberately tried to hang onto certain classified documents requested by the government after receiving a formal subpoena, as they believe that he ordered some boxes of documents to be removed from a secure storage area to other locations once he learned the government wanted them back.

FROM EARLIER: Trump legal team blundered by 'believing their hype' about hush money case collapsing: NYT's Haberman

In fact, prosecutors' evidence appears to be so strong that it convinced a judge last month to pierce attorney-client privilege after determining it was more likely than not that the former president had used conversations with attorney Evan Corcoran in the furtherance of a crime.


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-secret-service-2659717068/

 

To quote the smashing pumpkins:


Today is the greatest day I’ve ever known

 

The Secret Service agents ...

 

All you have to do is see what Trump said last night to know he is terrified because he feels Jack Smith breathing down his neck.

 

I think this is probably right. Out of all the investigations this is the most clear cut and Jack Smith has tons of evidence for proving violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice. And Smith appears to be getting near the end of possible witnesses with making the Secret Service agents testifying today.


Special counsel 'very close' to indicting Trump in documents case: legal expert

David Edwards
April 07, 2023



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Legal commentator Marcy Wheeler predicted former President Donald Trump will likely be charged with obstruction or the Espionage Act after he took classified documents to his home at Mar-a-Lago.

Wheeler spoke to We've Got Issues host Joshua Holland in a podcast aired on Friday.

"I'll also say that we expect [Fulton County DA] Fani Willis to charge also maybe in the next six weeks in the Georgia case, and that'll be a fairly broad election crimes case," she told Holland after Trump was indicted in Manhattan. "So that's right out there as well and again something that goes far, that gets much closer to the core of the damage that Trump has done."

Wheeler said two investigations headed by special counsel Jack Smith were also getting "very close" to handing down indictments.

"So we are getting close to the possibility that the former president will be charged at least with obstruction of an effort to get back classified documents," she explained. "But I suspect that there's a pretty good chance that, I mean, it's a big lift to charge a former president with Espionage Act violations, but there's certainly signs that they may be going there, and that case is very close."

https://www.rawstory.com/marcy-wheeler-trump-indictment/

 

Legal expert doesn't understand why Trump's lawyers are 'spinning things that are clearly false'

Sarah K. Burris
April 11, 2023



Former U.S. president Donald Trump appears in court at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. - SETH WENIG/AFP/Getty Images North America/TNS


Donald Trump's new lawyer appeared on the Sunday morning political talk shows this weekend appearing to explain how Trump ended up with 15 boxes of federal documents — including classified ones — in his desk drawer.

James Trusty offered: "Yeah, I mean can you imagine — does anybody in their right mind really think that Donald Trump came down to Mar-a-Lago while still president, I guess, in January, and said hey, these are the boxes I packed, let' be careful with those. That goes in the dining room that goes in the closet."

"Who put that classified document in his desk drawer?" Lawrence O'Donnell asked on his Monday evening.

Joining O'Donnell on MSNBC, former FBI general counsel and now NYU Law Professor Andrew Weissmann explained Trusty's answer isn't a very good one. He began with the supposition that every American has the right to a lawyer and that the lawyers have their own jobs to do in these situations, but ultimately acknowledged it wasn't that much of an excuse.

"There is a difference between what you see Mr. [Joe] Tacopina or Mr. Trusty doing and essentially spinning out things that are clearly false, so why even bother?" Weissmann asked. "I mean, you can go ahead and mislead the public when you know that is what you are doing in dodging questions, on the one hand. And on the other, you have Susan Necheles, one of Trump's counsel. And you know, when she was asked about this right after the arraignment, she gave, I thought, the best answer. She didn't try to defend it. She said, 'Look, he was angry.''"

Weissmann went on to explain that in this case, it's probably the best any lawyer can do when they're trying to maintain their own professional integrity.

"One of the concerns I have about the newest member is that he left a large law firm to now be a solo practitioner, meaning he has one and only one client," Weissmann said. "It is going to be really hard for that person to say 'no' to his one client. So, I don't expect that we are going to see more of the Susan Necheles path and I think we're going to see more of the things that you've been showing on your show."

See the full conversation below or at the link here.




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It's no great mystery.

Trump's had no way out of the quagmire he has created for himself. He believes he can create a groundswell of support from the base and make it politically too expensive for the Justice department to hold him accountable.

This requires more lies and falsehoods. As other Trump attorneys have discovered, Judges have no tolerance for lies and the in court. They have little tolerance for attorneys who lie outside of court. Anyone who goes to court and spins things that are clearly false, will soon be a former attorney.

 

There is a lot of reporting that the case Trump is most worried about is the Georgia investigation because they have him on a tape recording. But the one that has his legal team shitting their pants is this documents case. Trump was told even before he left the WH it would be a crime to take all those documents with him. Trump got caught with top secret documents and then lied and said he had turned them all over. So they subpoenaed him and he tried to hide documents and lied again.

And they don't need Trump on a tape recording if they have emails, texts, tape recordings, security video, and witnesses.

 

Trump always cries the victim. The judge, the prosecutors are always corrupt or biased. When Trump loses at anything, the reason is always because the system was rigged against him.

That's just Trump's modus operandi.

 

Trump lawyer recuses himself from classified documents case: report

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Nick Robertson
Sat, April 15, 2023 at 12:45 PM MDT




Evan Corcoran, a key member of former President Trump’s legal team, has recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he was questioned by a grand jury last month, according to The Washington Post.

Trump is under investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith over allegations that he intentionally mishandled classified documents during and after he left office, including storing documents at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and hiding them from federal investigators.

Corcoran will still represent Trump in other cases, including Smith’s investigation into the former president’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

He spoke to a grand jury last month after a court ruled that his communications with the former president did not fall under attorney-client privilege.

Federal prosecutors argued that the communications were part of a crime, and therefore not under privilege, according to the Post.

The Justice Department is expected to be considering obstruction of justice charges against Trump, focusing on a subpoena for classified documents made by the federal government after he left office.

Trump claimed to have already handed over all of the classified documents in his possession. However, while executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago last August, officials discovered boxes of additional documents.

Corcoran was key in communicating between the Trump team and federal investigators during the document search and preceding subpoena’s demand for documents.

Because grand jury sessions are secret, it is not known how Corcoran was questioned.

Still, recusing yourself from a case in such a scenario is standard legal ethics, according to the Post.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lawyer-recuses-himself-classified-184539988.html

 

I wonder if they’ll keep the name “Proud Boys” in prison…

 

Well no. That is why all the J6 defendants are kept in their own little segregated pods in the DC jail.
They will get hurt in the general population over their White privilege and the government does not want to risk that. And in prison about their only hope would be protection from the Aryan Nation gangs. And soft whir bread wanna bes like them don't quality for membership. So their only hope is to keep their heads down, keep their mouths shut. try to be invisible, and do their time.

You walk into prison trying to pretend you are some kind of tough guy and it becomes an object lesson for someone to teach you how tough you aren't.

 

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Bill Barr says Trump's classified documents case is his biggest legal risk: "I don't think that argument's gonna fly"

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Kathryn Watson
Thu, May 18, 2023 at 2:29 PM MDT




Trump-era Attorney General Bill Barr says he believes former President Donald Trump will be "very exposed" legally if he was playing "any games" with the documents marked as classified that were kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

In an interview with CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge Thursday, Barr also said he thinks special counsel Jack Smith could arrive at charging decisions in the Trump investigations as soon as this summer. Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to probe Trump's retention of the documents, and his role in any alleged unlawful interference in the transfer of power after the 2020 election or the Electoral College certification on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mar-a-Lago documents

Barr believes the special counsel investigations into Trump's handling of classified documents, in particular, should be cause for concern for the former president.


"It doesn't go a lot on intent or anything like that. It's very clear that he had no business having those documents," Barr told Herridge. "He was given a long time to send them back. And they were subpoenaed. And I've said all along that he wouldn't get in trouble, probably, just for taking them, just as Biden I don't think is going to get in trouble or Pence is not going to get in trouble."

"The problem," he continued, "is what did he do after the government asked for them back and subpoenaed them? And if there's any games being played there, he's going to be very exposed."

Barr also thinks Trump's claim in a recent CNN town hall that he was declassifying records as they left the White House isn't going to satisfy the special counsel. Trump said in the town hall that he "took what I took, and it gets declassified."

"I don't think that argument's gonna fly," Barr responded. "I don't think the idea that you know, he automatically — that they were somehow automatically declassified when they were put in the boxes. I don't think that will fly."

In a recent letter to Congress, Trump's lawyers said the Justice Department should "stand down" on the probe. They also suggested the former president's departure from the White House after the election was hastily conducted and staff "simply swept all documents from the president's desk and other areas into boxes" that were then moved to Florida.

Jan. 6

The Jan. 6 investigation is going to be "harder to establish a case," because it could run up against First Amendment issues and also, much of the case relies on proving intent, Barr said. The former attorney general estimated that charging decisions in Smith's investigation related to Trump, his actions around Jan. 6 and the Mar-a-Lago documents could come as soon as this summer.

"My guess is that, and this is just, I'm speculating, but I would think they'd want to do it before the end of the year. It could be later in the summer or in the fall would be the earliest I would expect it," Barr said.

Trump denies all wrongdoing in both investigations.

The Durham report

Barr, who appointed special counsel John Durham to look into the origins of the Russia investigation, said a successful probe isn't necessarily measured by how many people were prosecuted. One person pleaded guilty and two others were acquitted in the four-year probe. Durham's report, released on Monday, found the Justice Department and FBI "failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law" regarding the events during the 2016 campaign.

"I've said all along that's dangerous to get into the business of saying that the standard is how many people you prosecute, because the object here was to find out what happened and to tell the story, to get to the bottom of it," Barr said.

"I think accountability looks like if people pay attention to the truth," Barr added. "I mean, there was a lot of attention paid by the media to all the little details that they thought implicated Trump in collusion with Russia, all of which were nonsense. And yet, we had a two-year steady diet of this nonsense from the media. Now they should pay attention to the actual facts in the report. And that's what accountability looks like."

Predicts Trump will be defeated in 2024 GOP primary race

Barr continues to believe Trump will not win the Republican nomination next year. But he isn't sure who will.

He's also not convinced stricter abortion laws in the states are a winning issue for Republicans.

Barr, who said he's always been a "pro-life Republican" and continues his work to support this position, is glad Roe v. Wade was overturned.

"But there's a distinction between what people like me and other pro-lifers believe, you know, is the moral principle and what we actually embody in our specific secular laws," he told Herridge. He added, "I think we have to be judicious in what we propose as a law because I think the laws have to have substantial support among the people, have to reflect some kind of consensus, and it has to be a durable solution."

"We're talking about rules and restrictions placed on other people," Barr said. "And I think we have to be very careful about that. It's not about us demonstrating our purity. It's about finding something that allows us to live together in a stable way."


https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-barr-says-trumps-classified-202922106.html

 

Bill Barr says Trump's classified documents case is his biggest legal risk

256
Fri, May 19, 2023 at 2:13 PM MDT




In an interview Thursday with CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge, Trump-era Attorney General Bill Barr says he believes former President Donald Trump will be "very exposed" legally if he was playing "any games" with the documents marked as classified that were kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Barr also said he thinks special counsel Jack Smith could arrive at charging decisions in the Trump investigations as soon as this summer.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-barr-says-trumps-classified-201355648.html

 

Many legal experts and ex prosecutors point out Special Counsel Jack Smith is no Robert Mueller Now most of them point to the fact Smith has made a career out of prosecuting the rich and powerful and won't hesitate to indict Trump.

But I think there is also another difference. Mueller ran one of the tightest investigations I have ever seen with just about zero leaks about what was going on. While there seems to be a fairly constant stream of new information coming out of Smith's investigation. Which I believe is deliberate. It looks to me like Smith is giving lots of foreshadowing he is going to indict Trump to get people used to the idea so when he does it will not come as such a shock.



Trump was warned about retaining classified documents, notes reveal

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Hugo Lowell in Washington
Mon, May 22, 2023 at 4:00 AM MDT



Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Federal prosecutors have evidence Donald Trump was put on notice that he could not retain any classified documents after he was subpoenaed for their return last year, as they examine whether the subsequent failure to fully comply with the subpoena was a deliberate act of obstruction by the former president.

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The previously unreported warning conveyed to Trump by his lawyer Evan Corcoran could be significant in the criminal investigation surrounding Trump’s handling of classified materials given it shows he knew about his subpoena obligations.


Last June, Corcoran found roughly 40 classified documents in the storage room at Mar-a-Lago and told the justice department that no further materials remained at the property. That was later shown to be untrue, after the FBI later returned with a warrant and seized 101 additional classified documents.

The federal investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith has recently focused on why the subpoena was not compiled with, notably whether Trump arranged for boxes of classified documents to be moved out of the storage room so he could illegally retain them.

In particular, prosecutors have fixated on Trump’s valet Walt Nauta, after he told the justice department that Trump told him to move boxes out of the storage room before and after the subpoena. The activity was captured on subpoenaed surveillance footage, though there were gaps in the tapes.

The warning was one of several key moments that Corcoran preserved in roughly 50 pages of contemporaneous notes described to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity, which prosecutors have viewed in recent months as central to the criminal investigation.

The notes revealed how Trump and Nauta had unusually detailed knowledge of the botched subpoena response, including where Corcoran intended to search and not search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as when Corcoran was actually doing his search.

Although ordinarily off limits to prosecutors, the notes ended up before the grand jury in Washington hearing evidence in the case after a US appeals court allowed attorney-client privilege to be pierced because judges believed Trump might have used Corcoran’s legal advice in furtherance of a crime.

The notes described how Corcoran told Nauta about the subpoena before he started looking for classified documents because Corcoran needed him to unlock the storage room – which prosecutors have taken as a sign that Nauta was closely involved at essentially every step of the search.

Corcoran then described how Nauta had offered to help him go through the boxes, which he declined and told Nauta he should stay outside. But going through around 60 boxes in the storage room took longer than expected, and the search ended up lasting several days.

The notes also suggested to prosecutors that there were times when the storage room might have been left unattended while the search for classified documents was ongoing, one of the people said, such as when Corcoran needed to take a break and walked out to the pool area nearby.

In addition to his exchange with Trump, Corcoran described Trump’s facial expressions and reactions whenever they discussed the subpoena. The unusually detailed nature of his notes is said to have irritated Trump, who only learned about them after the notes themselves were subpoenaed.

The notes did not address why Corcoran only looked in the storage room, though he separately testified to the grand jury that while Trump did not mislead him about where to search, he did not say where to search either. The New York Times earlier reported a summary of his testimony.

Corcoran did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the special counsel’s office declined to comment.


Constructing an obstruction case remains challenging, and prosecutors would need to show that Trump arranged for Nauta to remove boxes he expressly knew contained classified documents demanded by the subpoena, with the intention of concealing them from his lawyer’s search.

Trump’s legal team have consistently said the subpoena response was incomplete because Corcoran was not as thorough as he should have been, in part because he left it until right before the deadline and only realized when he got there just how many boxes were in the storage room.

A Trump spokesperson has previously said of the investigation: “This is nothing more than a targeted, politically motivated witch-hunt against President Trump that is concocted to meddle in an election and prevent the American people from returning him to the White House.”

To resolve the issue about the gaps in the surveillance footage, the special counsel most recently subpoenaed Matthew Calamari Sr, the Trump Organization’s security chief who became its chief operating officer, and his son Matthew Calamari Jr, the director of corporate security.

Both Calamaris testified to the grand jury earlier this month, the Guardian previously reported, and were questioned in part on a text message that Nauta had sent asking Calamari Sr to call him back about the justice department’s request for the tapes last year.

The justice department interviewed Nauta several times last year until prosecutors grew concerned that he failed to provide them with a complete and accurate account of his role in moving boxes that contained classified documents, according to two people familiar with the situation.

To force his cooperation, prosecutors threatened to charge him with lying to the FBI after he gave differing accounts over several interviews. But that incensed Nauta’s lawyer, who told the justice department his client would not talk again unless he was charged or offered an immunity deal.

After losing Nauta, investigators have turned to other witnesses who could shed light on his role. In recent interviews, they have asked whether Nauta removed boxes containing classified documents when he was in the storage room at the time of the subpoena, and where he went with them.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-warned-retaining-classified-documents-100032459.html

 

Lawyer's notes show Trump wanted to fight back against classified documents subpoena: report

Matthew Chapman
May 22, 2023, 8:10 PM ET



Donald J. Trump speaks during CPAC Texas 2022 conference at Hilton Anatole. (Shutterstock.com)


Former President Donald Trump's attorney Evan Corcoran took potentially incriminating notes about the classified documents stashed at the Mar-a-Lago country club — and federal prosecutors have obtained them, according to a report that broke Monday.

CNN then obtained new information about what was in the notes — including that the former president intended to fight a subpoena for the documents.

"Donald Trump asked whether he could push back against Justice Department efforts last year to recover any classified documents still in his possession during conversations with his lawyer over compliance with a federal subpoena, according to multiple sources familiar with notes taken by his lawyer and turned over to investigators," reported Paula Reid, Kaitlan Collins, Katelyn Polantz, Kristen Holmes and Sara Murray.

The report explained that special counsel Jack Smith had obtained dozens of pages of the lawyer's notes that he took last spring when first dealing with the document scandal.

Earlier reporting indicated that the notes also indicate the storage room where the classified documents were placed was left unattended for significant periods — and that Trump was "irritated" about how much information Corcoran was taking down.

"Some sources close to the former president say he was merely asking Corcoran for legal advice when he inquired about whether they could beat back the subpoena. But Trump has offered shifting explanations for why he did not return all the classified documents in a timely fashion. Trump has said he had 'the absolute right' to take the documents as recently as this month at a CNN town hall," said the report. "Smith obtained the notes after an extraordinary court fight that ended with a federal judge ruling there was sufficient evidence to suggest Trump used his attorney in furtherance of a crime. That allowed prosecutors to pierce attorney-client privilege and obtain Corcoran’s notes and additional grand jury testimony from him."

According to the report, however, "Corcoran’s notes don’t explain how the FBI was able to find hundreds of additional classified records in its court-authorized search of the property, including in Trump’s office at the resort in August 2022, according to one of the sources."



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But Donald declassified those documents... With his beautiful mind, and it was a perfect declassification, too!

 

'We better look': Counter-intel expert says Jack Smith may have new info on Trump

Sarah K. Burris
May 23, 2023, 6:16 PM ET



Donald J. Trump speaks during CPAC Texas 2022 conference at Hilton Anatole. (Shutterstock.com)


Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director for counter-intelligence, highlighted the recent report that special counsel Jack Smith is looking into financial information for Donald Trump's international businesses in seven countries, and said it's possible Smith has additional info about information sharing.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, Figliuzzi explained that the statements from Trump in the CNN town hall were more admissions, in a line of confessions, that he took the documents he should not have.

"But that crucial period after that sobering subpoena is slapped on you is that I have a choice," explained Figliuzzi. "I'll either comply with the law, or I'm not. And everything he's done after that has involved non-compliance with the law, and, in fact, thumbing his nose at the law. And as recently as the CNN town hall meeting, he actually said, 'I took those documents. I had every right to. And if I did show them to somebody, and I can't remember if I did or not, I had every right to.' This is defiance that goes towards criminal intention. It is there. And, by the way, if the reports are accurate, this case is all but done."

Figliuzzi's reference was to the Wall Street Journal reporting that Smith is finishing up his probe and all interviews have been done.

Wallace walked through the timeline of how much Trump handed over and when. She pointed to the New York Times reporting of the foreign Trump businesses and recalled that it was part of the documents case at the DOJ.

"Do we assume that people we maybe haven't heard about, going in to talk to Jack Smith and his investigators, are part of the fabric of this part of the probe — foreign business dealings and Trump classified documents?" she asked.

He explained the depth of the collection of intelligence that would surround the Trump documents case.

"We know Trump doesn't use email, but he is a prolific user of the phones, right?" explained Figliuzzi. "And so, guaranteed there have been subpoenas for phone carriers for his phone records throughout this period and watching his response to a visit from the head of the National Security Secretary, DOJ, then here come FBI agents, and there's a subpoena. And you're watching this, they call it 'tickling the wire.' See what responses — who is he calling? Who's calling each other?"

He said that it isn't about the protected privilege content of lawyers' conversations, but it outlines who else he's speaking with.

"So, you can develop sources," Figliuzzi continued. "So, when there is great confidence that they have the goods on him, it is because they are targeting people who know for a fact what is going on. Now, let's fast forward and tie that into this subpoena for whether or not the Trump Organization was doing any business with one or more, or seven nations. There is an interesting piece in the Washington Post that actually puts a post on it. And it is last month. If that is true, that is intriguing because it may imply that this is a pro forma routine thing. Let's make sure there's no surprises because the defense will say, 'Look, you have no evidence that committed espionage, right? That he actually disseminated national security information to a foreign country?' Well, we better look."

The alternative is that one could be reading the story and think that some intelligence may have recently "maybe from those phone calls, maybe from those from sources, where we think, no, we better look at Saudi, or China, or Turkey. I don't know. But it would go toward motive," he closed. "And it would be explosive if he would have actually shown documents, and what if those documents involved those very countries that are on the list? It's even more concerning. And now you're looking at maybe real-life espionage. We don't know."

See the full conversation with Figliuzzi below or at the link here.



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Jack Smith might suspect Trump was trying to make money from classified documents: former White House lawyer

Sarah K. Burris
May 22, 2023, 7:19 PM ET



Jack Smith, Donald Trump (Smith photo by Robin Van Lonkhuijsen for AFP/ Trump by Saul Loeb for AFP)


Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal worries former Donald Trump was trying to make money from classified documents found in his Mar-a-Lago home.

Speaking on MSNBC Monday – just after news broke that special counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed financial records from the Trump Organization's business deals with seven countries since 2017. According to Katyal, it could mean Smith is following the money from the government documents Trump took.

The New York Times broke the news that Smith had issued the subpoenas as part of his investigation into the classified documents.

"Just about ten minutes ago, on air, I said to you that the stolen documents case against Donald Trump is his biggest threat, and that it gets stronger with every passing day," said Katyal. "I guess it's getting stronger with every passing minute because, in the last ten minutes, it appears to have gotten even stronger."

He explained, "Basically, the background here is the prosecutor's fear, the public's fear, that Donald Trump monetizes everything. He monetized Jan. 6th, of all things. He monetizes his impeachment and the like. So, I think the prosecutor's concern here has been when he took these highly sensitive classified documents, was he trying to monetize those as well?"

It's a similar take to what a former Justice Department official asked about Trump's possession of the documents earlier this month.

Smith doesn't need this information for the Mar-a-Lago case, Katyal told MSNBC's Katie Phang after the news broke Monday. Stealing the documents alone falls under the Espionage Act. There are also questions about obstructions of justice in Trump's prolonged refusal to hand over the documents, and allegations that he attempted to move them or hide them.

"What this says is perhaps there is even more," said Katyal. "There is a whole other set of potential criminal charges.

"Of course, this is just early reporting, but basically, what this reporting is saying is that since 2017, the prosecutors were looking at Trump's conduct while in office, while president and after he left office. So, they're not just looking at the Stormy Daniels kind of time period, which is before Trump took office, or the inflation of real estate assets, which was before Trump took office. They're looking now at presidential and post-presidential conduct."

See the full conversation between Katyal and Phang below or at the link here.




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