His body man foolishly talked to the FBI and denied knowing anything about the boxes moving even though it would have been on video that he moved boxes. They are suggesting in the indictment Trump told him to lie about the boxes but don’t outright say it. That’s the “conspiracy” to keep a Trump lawyer in the dark about more boxes in the residence.
Does it suggest criminal intent? It’s hard to find. Trump clearly cares about the documents and is slowly going through the boxes himself in the residence. He didn’t want his lawyers digging through them. They are suggesting he played his lawyers without any explanation as to why. He asked for legal advice. Nothing was destroyed. He didn’t sell secrets to China or whoever.
My concern is you almost have to feel he must be guilty to make some of the leaps they are asking. It doesn’t help they misconstrued a statute in two of the charges. There’s some overreach here but I am not saying he did nothing wrong because I need more facts about what rights he possessed over documents taken with him.
It’s disappointing this seems more politically motivated than about protecting the United States. Isn’t that the point of starting off the document by listing candidate Trump’s campaign promises? We just need to feel certain Trump, leading candidate to oppose the sitting Democrat president, is being treated fairly which has a high burden given the history of russia hoax, etc.
Once he was out of office and Biden “re-classified” his records and the DOJ issued subpoenas for his records, President Trump was effectively in a position where he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. If he turned over classified records to the FBI, this could have been construed as a violation of the Espionage Act itself.
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He kept documents that he believed would prove his cases against whomever of the government, had wronged him; and he did not want to surrender such documents.
The leftists wanted to get their hands on those documents.