The Specific Statute is the Presidential Records Act.
Espionage Act applies to everyone
Posted on 06/15/2023 3:42:25 PM PDT by Signalman
Former President Donald Trump reportedly rejected suggestions from his attorneys to arrange a settlement with the Justice Department to avoid federal charges and instead, he listened to the advice of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, a conservative legal activist, and others who said he could legally keep the classified documents and should fight government prosecutors.
Trump attorney Christopher Kise wanted to see last fall if he could quietly approach the Justice Department to negotiate a settlement with the hopes that Attorney General Merrick Garland and the agency would want to avoid bringing charges against the former president, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing multiple people familiar with the matter.
Trump was not interested in settling with the Justice Department after listening to other attorneys who advocated for a more aggressive approach, so Kise did not approach prosecutors with his proposal.
Trump had returned 15 boxes of classified documents early last year, leaving at least 64 more at his home. Fitton and others had told Trump he could legally retain the documents and he should fight the federal government.
Fitton had reportedly repeatedly mentioned Judicial Watch's "Clinton socks case," which refers to tapes Bill Clinton kept in his White House sock drawer, as justification to Trump. His organization lost a lawsuit that demanded for the recordings to be handed over to the custody of the National Archives and designated as presidential records.
A 37-count indictment unsealed against Trump last week charges him with conspiracy to obstruct justice, making false statements and violating the Espionage Act, among other things.
"Where is the conspiracy? I don’t understand any of it. I think this is a trap. They had no business asking for the records … and they’ve manufactured an obstruction charge out of that. There are core constitutional issues that the indictment avoids, and the obstruction charge seems weak to me," Fitton said Wednesday.
Fitton criticized the Post story early Thursday morning.
".@WashingtonPost runs big story on how Trump deserved to be abused by the Biden DOJ because he objected to being abused by the Biden DOJ," he tweeted.
Accepting a settlement implies guilt. If it doesn’t the demonrats would claim it did.
It would also legitimize the bogus charges against PDJT.
Plea bargain? Eff em…. Fedzilla HATES people who take em to trial.
“ Accepting a settlement implies guilt. If it doesn’t the demonrats would claim it did.
It would also legitimize the bogus charges against PDJT.”
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EXACTLY!
Trump took the advice of Chris Christie and hired Christopher Raye as the FBI Director. He took the advice of Fitton and got indicted.
I like Trump, and fully support him, but he should be careful of from whom he takes advice.
Yes. I’m ok with whatever crimes Trump committed because Democrats don’t get prosecuted for the same crimes. The law is for everyone or it’s for no one.
Showing me Trump’s crimes means nothing. Put Hillary and Biden behind bars or I don’t care. https://t.co/VpTW5qDnJi— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) June 15, 2023
Did Fox’s settlement help them in the Dominion case?
Discuss.
Its Wray not Raye.
“Christopher Wray”.
“I like Trump, and fully support him, but he should be careful of from whom he takes advice.”
He certainly does not need YOUR advise.
Who is Christopher Raye?
The statement presumes that Trump could have avoided being charged if only......
MY LEFT FOOT! Only a fool would believe that the dimocrats wouldn’t want to put Trump in jail. Like the story Trump use to tell at his 2015 rallies called “The Snake”. “I saved you and took care of you, why did you bite me”, “Because I’m a snake!”
“Who is Christopher Raye?”
Christopher Wray’s evil twin?
“Its Wray not Raye.” Give it a break Karen.
Exactly! At this point, I don't care if he did stand in the middle of 5th avenue and assault someone. Still gonna vote for him, plain & simple. And, should the anti-American leftist marxist democrats successfully take him out of the running, it will be with the help of the GOP, who will wither away very quickly when I and folks like me just stop voting. Trump '24 or let it all burn. It's not like we have a Republic anymore. It's not like we have a Constitution anymore. That's just some old piece of paper. The time is now.
In addition, there is no doubt the deep-state would continue its harassment on other fronts. You would think you were solving one problem, only to find yourself deeper in the swamp on something you didn't expect
Its how the devil operates.
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I don’t believe thy are talking about a plea bargain here.
Think of Fay (Wray), not Martha (Faye).
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