Properly, this isn’t the Donald Trump indictment we have been anticipating this week…
Whereas 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 Division of Justice has zagged as an alternative of zigged and as an alternative hit him with extra expenses within the categorized paperwork case!
In a superseding indictment dropped on Thursday, the DOJ charged Trump with another depend of willful retention of nationwide protection info. That brings that tally to 32 counts — that means 32 separate extremely delicate paperwork he withheld even after being instructed to offer them again.
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The opposite new expenses? Two further counts of obstruction of justice. These counts associated to yet one more manner 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. In response to the indictment, De Oliveira helped Trump aide Walt Nauta transfer the containers to attempt to conceal them from his personal legal professionals and in the end the US authorities. However 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 season. Oliveira allegedly instructed the IT director “that ‘the boss’ needed the server deleted.”
The brand new expenses convey Trump to 40 federal counts! And these newest obstruction expenses may very well be thought of much more essential than the doc expenses. See, they present a consciousness of guilt. Trump’s most important protection has been that the paperwork have been not categorized 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 when he actually believed that, if he really thought he did nothing incorrect by taking containers of nationwide protection secrets and techniques to his house, leaving them round in outdated bogs the place anybody, say, even Chinese language spies (not a hypothetical — there actually was a Chinese language spy arrested there in 2019), then why conceal it? Why delete the safety footage? Why deceive the federal government about it?
Naturally Trump’s group launched a press release on the newest expenses Thursday night, and it’s completely rational and measured and doesn’t sound in any respect insane:
“That is nothing greater than a continued determined and flailing try by the Biden Crime Household and their Division of Justice to harass President Trump and people round him. Deranged Jack Smith is aware of that they don’t have any case and is casting about for any technique to salvage their unlawful witch hunt and to get somebody apart from Donald Trump to run in opposition to Crooked Joe Biden.”
Sigh. Election 2024!
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