DOJ moving toward Criminal Charges for Trump
Sep 3, 2022 07:18:06 #
336Robin
Loc: North Carolina
Things keep rolling along and the more time the more developments. Mark Meadows just turned over a whole bunch more texts and the DOJ is getting closer to the day when charges the former President.
What a fall he has taken.
INSIDER
DOJ's Mar-a-Lago investigation appears to be moving toward criminal charges for Trump, former top counterintelligence official says
Tom Porter
Thu, September 1, 2022 at 8:07 AM
A former senior counterintelligence chief at the DOJ commented on the Mar-a-Lago raid to Politico.
"It seems to me it's moving in the direction of warranting criminal charges," David Lauftmann said.
The DOJ believes Trump wrongly took highly classified info after he left office.
The Justice Department appears to be moving toward criminally charging Trump in its Mar-a-Lago investigation, a former counterintelligence chief at the department told Politico.
"It seems to me it's moving in the direction of warranting criminal charges," David Laufman, former chief of the counterespionage section at the Justice Department's national security division, told the publication.
"I think [Trump] has significant criminal exposure. Whether they ultimately decide to exercise prosecutorial discretion in favor of prosecuting him is another question."
His analysis is significant given the division he used to head is playing a key role in the DOJ's investigation in whether Trump mishandled highly classified information after leaving office.
Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
New information has been made public about the strength of the case the DOJ believes it has against Trump in recent days.
In legal filings responding to Trump's request to have a special master appointed to examine the documents retrieved by the FBI, the DOJ alleged that Trump aides sought to obstruct its investigation and conceal documents, and that documents were kept in a haphazard way alongside Trump's personal belongings.
In a photo submitted as part of a filing Tuesday, highly classified documents were pictured alongside a box containing an old TIME magazine cover featuring Trump.
Trump has offered a shifting array of defenses in response to the search, claiming that he had broadly declassified the documents before leaving the office.
His lawyers have argued that many were protected under executive-privilege rules designed to ensure the privacy of presidential communications.
But legal experts have argued that the executive-privilege argument is highly unlikely to succeed in this case, and that Trump's declassification claims are unconvincing and may not protect him from criminal charges even if true.
The decision to pursue any sort of prosecution will ultimately rest with Attorney General Merrick Garland, who will have to weigh a number of factors in the decision whether to take the historically unprecedented step of filing charges against a former president.
Read the original article on Business Insider
What a fall he has taken.
INSIDER
DOJ's Mar-a-Lago investigation appears to be moving toward criminal charges for Trump, former top counterintelligence official says
Tom Porter
Thu, September 1, 2022 at 8:07 AM
A former senior counterintelligence chief at the DOJ commented on the Mar-a-Lago raid to Politico.
"It seems to me it's moving in the direction of warranting criminal charges," David Lauftmann said.
The DOJ believes Trump wrongly took highly classified info after he left office.
The Justice Department appears to be moving toward criminally charging Trump in its Mar-a-Lago investigation, a former counterintelligence chief at the department told Politico.
"It seems to me it's moving in the direction of warranting criminal charges," David Laufman, former chief of the counterespionage section at the Justice Department's national security division, told the publication.
"I think [Trump] has significant criminal exposure. Whether they ultimately decide to exercise prosecutorial discretion in favor of prosecuting him is another question."
His analysis is significant given the division he used to head is playing a key role in the DOJ's investigation in whether Trump mishandled highly classified information after leaving office.
Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
New information has been made public about the strength of the case the DOJ believes it has against Trump in recent days.
In legal filings responding to Trump's request to have a special master appointed to examine the documents retrieved by the FBI, the DOJ alleged that Trump aides sought to obstruct its investigation and conceal documents, and that documents were kept in a haphazard way alongside Trump's personal belongings.
In a photo submitted as part of a filing Tuesday, highly classified documents were pictured alongside a box containing an old TIME magazine cover featuring Trump.
Trump has offered a shifting array of defenses in response to the search, claiming that he had broadly declassified the documents before leaving the office.
His lawyers have argued that many were protected under executive-privilege rules designed to ensure the privacy of presidential communications.
But legal experts have argued that the executive-privilege argument is highly unlikely to succeed in this case, and that Trump's declassification claims are unconvincing and may not protect him from criminal charges even if true.
The decision to pursue any sort of prosecution will ultimately rest with Attorney General Merrick Garland, who will have to weigh a number of factors in the decision whether to take the historically unprecedented step of filing charges against a former president.
Read the original article on Business Insider
Sep 3, 2022 07:22:18 #
336Robin wrote:
Things keep rolling along and the more time the mo... (show quote)
"It seems to me", "in the direction". Yep, a slam dunk. Putz.
Sep 3, 2022 08:23:13 #
336Robin wrote:
Things keep rolling along and the more time the mo... (show quote)
They just keep shaking the tree .
One day , that big ugly orangutan will fall out of the tree.
Sep 3, 2022 09:29:45 #
336Robin
Loc: North Carolina
Milosia2 wrote:
They just keep shaking the tree .
One day , that big ugly orangutan will fall out of the tree.
One day , that big ugly orangutan will fall out of the tree.
When the published the list of what was taken at Maralago it also showed the empty file folders of
what they know is missing. They have to prosecute that. No way around it.
Sep 3, 2022 09:59:50 #
336Robin wrote:
Things keep rolling along and the more time the mo... (show quote)
how long have you had this mental disease (Trump Derangement Syndrome ) or Obsessive Chronic Neurosis
Sep 3, 2022 10:03:26 #
336Robin wrote:
When the published the list of what was taken at Maralago it also showed the empty file folders of
what they know is missing. They have to prosecute that. No way around it.
what they know is missing. They have to prosecute that. No way around it.
Any day now.
Sep 3, 2022 17:25:48 #
LogicallyRight
Loc: Chicago
rjoeholl wrote:
"It seems to me", "in the direction". Yep, a slam dunk. Putz.
***"It seems to me", "in the direction". Yep, a slam dunk. Putz.
>>>So we are in agreement. Robin will now be known as PUTZ
Sep 3, 2022 17:27:32 #
LogicallyRight
Loc: Chicago
336Robin wrote:
When the published the list of what was taken at Maralago it also showed the empty file folders of
what they know is missing. They have to prosecute that. No way around it.
what they know is missing. They have to prosecute that. No way around it.
Okay, Putz. Explain why?
Sep 4, 2022 08:43:45 #
336Robin
Loc: North Carolina
Bevvy wrote:
how long have you had this mental disease (Trump Derangement Syndrome ) or Obsessive Chronic Neurosis
I always knew that the Evangelical Flu would pass. It's the after effects that are going to be hell but you'll improve one day at a time. It will start after the DOJ gets finished and the midterms are over.
Sep 4, 2022 13:48:26 #
LogicallyRight wrote:
***"It seems to me", "in the direction". Yep, a slam dunk. Putz.
>>>So we are in agreement. Robin will now be known as PUTZ
>>>So we are in agreement. Robin will now be known as PUTZ
Stop insulting Putzes
Sep 4, 2022 18:04:56 #
Sep 4, 2022 21:45:34 #
336Robin wrote:
When the published the list of what was taken at Maralago it also showed the empty file folders of
what they know is missing. They have to prosecute that. No way around it.
what they know is missing. They have to prosecute that. No way around it.
Don't hold your breath.
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