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.
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.
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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 dictated notes described to the Guardian over several weeks by three people with knowledge of their contents, which prosecutors have viewed in recent months as central to the criminal investigation.
This investigation has the potention to be just eyewash, just like the Durham investigation, if no charges are brought and if no convictions are obtained. The only thing that is going to matter to the TOFF is whether or not he sees the inside of a prison cell. Otherwise, trials will be an opportunity for fundraising, with his legal fees covered by the rubes who send in donations and with the only people who go to jail are inconsequential underlings. And, to the Asset, everybody else is an inconsequential underling.
So much crime, so few charges brought. So much sadness.
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One of his former lawyers opines that he's going to prison.
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