'Incredibly Damning Statements'

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Pleading ignorance may not be a valid defense for former President Donald Trump if he winds up criminally charged under the Espionage Act or for obstructing justice following a weekend rally in Mesa, Arizona, according to former Justice Department official and FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann.


The federal government's investigation into the 45th president’s handling of White House records is appearing more cut-and-dry after Trump took the stage over the weekend and admitted he was aware of the records seized by investigators when they raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in August, according to Weissmann.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...id=a2hs&cvid=e0b5244671344163ba22de5b48df961d

 

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Trump's Admission: "They should give me immediately back everything that they've taken from me because it's mine, it's mine. They took it from me — in the raid. They broke into my house," Trump said on Sunday. “I had a small number of boxes in storage.”

Why It Matters: "The trick is always how do you show that somebody like Donald Trump knew what was at Mar-a-Lago, and it wasn’t just his lawyers or underlings who knew the details," Weissmann said Monday, according to a report from the Washington Examiner. On Trump’s admission to owning the documents Weissmann added: “those are incredibly damning statements that go directly to knowledge and intent.”

 

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Pleading ignorance may not be a valid defense for former President Donald Trump if he winds up criminally charged under the Espionage Act or for obstructing justice following a weekend rally in Mesa, Arizona, according to former Justice Department official and FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann.


The federal government's investigation into the 45th president’s handling of White House records is appearing more cut-and-dry after Trump took the stage over the weekend and admitted he was aware of the records seized by investigators when they raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in August, according to Weissmann.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...id=a2hs&cvid=e0b5244671344163ba22de5b48df961d

Trump is in the bed he made himself. The MAGAts can blame whomever they like but the fact remains Trumps abused his office and broke several laws.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...-fee-shows-gets-legal-issues-haberman-2022-10
Trump paying a $3 million lawyer retainer fee — maybe the biggest he's ever paid — shows he knows how much legal trouble he's in, NYT reporter says

On Thursday, she and other Times journalists reported the Justice Department believes Trump still has more classified documents than those seized from Mar-a-Lago. They also reported Saturday that Trump had proposed a deal last year in which he said he would hand over the materials he kept in exchange for documents about the FBI investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia.

During an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Haberman was asked if she thinks Trump understands the legal jeopardy he may be facing.

"I actually do think he understands how much legal jeopardy he's in," Haberman said. "And then he convinces himself that it's not that bad. But the fact that he spent $3 million on a retainer for a lawyer — whose advice he has sometimes not listened to, I should note — but the fact that he was willing to do that."

This will be playing out in court, along with all the coup and sedition trials, well past the 2024 election.