United States history was once again made after DOJ-appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team formally indicted scandal-plagued ex-President Donald Trump on multiple charges related to the infamous stolen document scandal. This brutal indictment serves as the former president’s 2nd official indictment in a number of weeks, and his first formal indictment on federal charges stemming from the US Department of Justice.
Smith, on behalf of the Biden DOJ, has been investigating the former president for his role in inciting the January 6th Capitol insurrection, his attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election after his loss to Joe Biden, and the infamous stolen Mar-a-Lago document scandal, in which Donald Trump stole classified government documents at the end of his presidency, relocated the material to his Palm Beach compound, where he hid them, lied about his possession of the materials, and repeatedly refused to comply with government requests and subpoenas for their return.
In the wake of the bombshell indictment, new details have already begun to emerge about the goings on inside Trump World in the days, weeks, and months leading up to and during the infamous Mar-a-Lago stolen document scandal.
This week, the Washington Post broke new reporting, in which they revealed that one of Trump’s attorneys in the case, Christopher Kise, desperately tried to avoid document-related criminal charges against the scandal-plagued ex-president back in the Fall of 2022, by attempting to negotiate a deal with the US Department of Justice.
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As is evident by the 37 felony indictments against Donald Trump, Kise was not successful — because the attorney never got a chance. According to WaPo, Kise’s plan to “take the temperature down” was immediately shot down by narcissistic Donald Trump.
Writing for the Post, Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany report:
That quiet entreaty last fall was one of many occasions when lawyers and advisers sought to get Trump to take a more cooperative stance in a bid to avoid what happened Friday. The Justice Department unsealed an indictment including more than three dozen criminal counts against Trump for allegedly keeping and hiding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.”
Kise wasn’t the only member of the Trump legal team that tried to diffuse this document dumpster fire. The report goes on to reveal that, in the fall of 2021, now-former Trump attorney Alex Cannon repeatedly urged the disgraced ex-president to return the stolen documents to the National Archives and Records Administration, while he still had the chance. According to the report, Cannon continually told Trump that he was legally required to do so. But, as we’re all painfully aware at this point, Donald Trump has never been one for following the law.
Dawsey and Alemany further confirm that despite multiple warnings from Cannon that the NARA was preparing to go to Congress or the DOJ should Trump continue to refuse to return the classified material, Donald continually refused to return what he had stolen and consistently brushed off the serious warnings from his own legal team.
“It’s mine,” Trump would reportedly respond to the warnings.
As Trump continued to refuse to return the documents, the National Archives and Records Administration continued to crank up the heat, reportedly resulting in the ex-president becoming more and more furious and defiant, eventually leading him to almost completely revamp his legal team, in what appears to be an effort to surround himself with attorneys who would not question him. This included the introduction of Evan Corcoran to his legal team.
Corcoran has since provided absolutely crucial and brutally damning testimony to investigators in the document case, which ultimately proved to be pivotal in their prosecution of the ex-president, revealing that Trump urged him, in his official capacity as his legal representative, to “stonewall” the investigation and refuse to comply with the federal subpoena for the stolen classified materials.
In the newly unsealed indictment, Corcoran quoted Donald Trump saying, “I really don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t, I don’t want you looking through my boxes.”
According to the former Trump attorney’s testimony, the ex-president further stated, “Well, what if we, what happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them?” and “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything there?”
Read the full bombshell report from the Washington Post here.
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