Well, this isn’t the Donald Trump indictment we have been anticipating this week…
While the nation is ready to see if the ex-Prez is charged together with his makes an attempt to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election, culminating within the January 6 assault on the Capitol, the Department of Justice has zagged as a substitute of zigged and as a substitute hit him with extra fees within the categorised paperwork case!
In a superseding indictment dropped on Thursday, the DOJ charged Trump with yet one more depend of willful retention of nationwide protection data. That brings that tally to 32 counts — which means 32 separate extremely delicate paperwork he withheld even after being informed to present them again.
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The different new fees? Two further counts of obstruction of justice. These counts associated to one more method Trump allegedly tried to cover the paperwork he was hoarding — deleting surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago!
A 3rd defendant was charged this time, the Mar-a-Lago’s head of upkeep, a person named Carlos De Oliveira. According to the indictment, De Oliveira helped Trump aide Walt Nauta transfer the containers to attempt to cover them from his personal legal professionals and finally the US authorities. But he additionally, on the former POTUS’ command, tried to “wipe” the resort’s safety footage from servers — the identical footage the DOJ was asking for final summer time. Oliveira allegedly informed the IT director “that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted.”
The new fees convey Trump to 40 federal counts! And these newest obstruction fees might be thought of much more essential than the doc fees. See, they present a consciousness of guilt. Trump’s important protection has been that the paperwork have been not categorised as a result of because the president, he had the final word authority to declassify them — even when he did it with out taking any precise motion or telling anybody.
But if he actually believed that, if he really thought he did nothing fallacious by taking containers of nationwide protection secrets and techniques to his house, leaving them round in outdated bogs the place anybody, say, even Chinese spies (not a hypothetical — there actually was a Chinese spy arrested there in 2019), then why cover it? Why delete the safety footage? Why misinform the federal government about it?
Naturally Trump’s staff launched an announcement on the most recent fees Thursday night, and it’s completely rational and measured and doesn’t sound in any respect insane:
“This is nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their Department of Justice to harass President Trump and those around him. Deranged Jack Smith knows that they have no case and is casting about for any way to salvage their illegal witch hunt and to get someone other than Donald Trump to run against Crooked Joe Biden.”
Sigh. Election 2024!
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