Posted on 06/15/2023 12:02:48 PM PDT by thegagline
Former President Donald Trump stubbornly rejected his legal team’s efforts last year to settle the classified documents case — and prevent him from being indicted by a federal grand jury, according to a bombshell report.
Christopher Kise, one of Trump’s attorneys in the fall of 2022, wanted to quietly approach the Justice Department to negotiate a deal with Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Washington Post reported, citing seven insiders.
Kise told others he hoped his overture would “take the temperature down” by promising a professional approach and the return of all the materials from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
But Trump rebuffed Kise and listened instead to the advice of Tom Fitton, head of the conservative group Judicial Watch, who told him he should fight to keep the documents, according to the paper. *** Kise, a former solicitor general of Florida, declined to comment to the Washington Post.
“President Trump has consistently been in full compliance with the Presidential Records Act, which is the only law that applies to Presidents and their records,” Trump’s presidential campaign Steven Cheung told the paper in a statement.
“In the course of negotiations over the return of the documents, President Trump told the lead DOJ official, ‘anything you need from us, just let us know.’ Sadly, the weaponized DOJ rejected this offer of cooperation and conducted an unnecessary and unconstitutional raid on the President’s home in order to inflict maximum political damage on the leading presidential candidate,” he added.
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I’m not implying that Christopher Kise is responsible for the leak. However, Kise, Trump’s attorney, is a big Charle Crist (D) donor. Then again, Trump gave Kamala Harris $5,000 in 2011 and $1,000 in 2013.
There would NEVER have been a settlement without Trump’s promise never to run again.
“...negotiate a deal with Attorney General Merrick Garland”
Sure, negotiating with a snake like Garland always works.
“I’m not implying that Christopher Kise is responsible for the leak.”
The article says “Kise told others...”. If that’s true, then he may not have leaked but he still probably violated attorney-client privilege by talking about the case to whoever did leak.
When you're innocent you fight to the bitter end.
What would such a “settlement” really entail? Something like Rachel Maddow’s trial balloon musing that President Trump COULD trade no jail time for agreeing to drop out of the presidential race and never run for office again?
It would have been a terrible idea, Trump would have been considered weak vs the perception he is fighting an unjust prosecution.
Agree about the lawyers blabbing however. It seems that privileged communications are now just a cue to call the media with a scoop. But then we all know Shakespeare was right when it comes to lawyers...
we know it would never happen, just a ruse!
So, in a normal world, the DOJ would have set up a meeting with Trump and his attorneys and said: “Look, we don’t want to make WW3 out of this, but we feel we have to enforce the law. We are going to indict you if you do not do X, Y, and Z.” That’s not what happened here. The DOJ fired up a criminal grand jury upon the returne of 15 plus boxes of stuff based upon some classified marked material being in the boxes. These goons were never going to negotiate.
This.
The pack of Demmy and RINO dogs will continue to attack until they pull him down.
“according to a bombshell report.”
Probably true.
Settle? As in drop out of the prez campaign?
sometimes the innocents settle
when the legal fees are bankrupting
and family is threatened with persecution
see scooter libby and michael flynn
not much chance of Trump being bankrupted by legal fees
he is actually getting a good return with a poll bump from the indictments
Not only that, his inherently pugnacious character probably rebelled against saying he did something he knows he didn’t.
I would have the same problem. General Flynn was the same, but he ended up caving after he lost his house and his savings fighting it, and then they went after his son and were threatening to prosecute him as well, and he decided to fall on his sword.
There are limits to what a man can stand.
I had a problem with some people on this forum who said “He pleaded guilty-so he’s guilty and deserves what he gets!”
We did have some people who took that stance, and I took issue with it. It is one thing to fight against another man or men, but another thing still to fight against a government with bottomless pockets, an excess of lawless malice, limitless manpower and resources, and all the time in the world to bring it to bear.
Trumps documents were probably related to the “Crossfire Hurricane” hoax. I can see why the FIB wanted to get them back. They were going to get their anuses sued off.
Well, why should he settle when he was entitled to those documents and had no obligation to hand them over to anyone?
wussy attorneys like this should NEVER be engaged. DJT did nothing wrong and I don’t blame him for rejecting ANY settlement talks
Wasn't going to happen. Not possible with that partisan hack whose one and only job is to get Trump. Garland would have OWNED President Trump in such a scenario. How naïve can these fools be?
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