Posted on 05/30/2023 1:19:41 PM PDT by Coronal
A lawyer for former President Donald Trump reportedly said he was “waved off” of searching his Mar-a-Lago office for classified documents after the feds issued a subpoena demanding their return.
Attorney Evan Corcoran told two colleagues he was barred from looking for secret documents in Trump’s personal office at the Florida resort club as he sought to respond to the subpoena, the Guardian reported Tuesday.
The new report did not say whether it was Trump himself or some other aide who told Corcoran not to search the office, or why he complied with the request.
Corcoran wound up searching only a basement storage unit and wound up falsely telling the feds he conducted a “diligent search” of the entire property that turned up only 38 documents, a fraction of the cache of more than 100 that Trump improperly kept.
The new report comes as special counsel Jack Smith reportedly has all but finished investigating the documents case and is preparing to decide whether to seek indictments of Trump and perhaps others.
Evidence trickling into the public eye offer strong signs that Trump sought to obstruct the probe into the documents, particularly by defying the May 2022 subpoena for their return.
The former president took thousands of documents with him to Mar-a-Lago when he left office in 2021.
After months of haggling with federal archives officials, he returned several boxes. But prosecutors demanded the rest, prompting the subpoena.
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They will get that evedence against them that they want to remove from his
possession soooo, so badly, when President Trump finally presents it to the whole world.
Who “waived” him off. The secret service? A Trump employee? An FBI agent? The media has a way of taking a phrase or two out of two sentences and reworking them to say something different than what was meant. Also, it’s amazing how often the media ends up with such information from the special counsel’s office in regards to the Trump investigation.
I’ll wait to learn more.
How can you search for “secret” documents?
As an both an attorney for Trump and being served with a Subpoena Duces Tecum, the attorney is compelled to look for the documents. “Waived off” is not a legal mechanism.
There is no such thing as classified/secret documents in possession of any POTUS. POTUS has full authority to de-classify any document.
I know the quality of journalism has plummeted but I have a hard time believing that such an important detail was accidently left out. Don't say who it is and for a news cycle, Trump opponents can imply that it is him. By the time the clarification comes out that it was not Trump, then the story will be old news. If it had been Trump himself, we would have been told right off-the-bat.
did he have CLEARANCE to look at said documents???
Just like Trump?
No biased reporting, by this author, at all!/sarc.
Just outed yourself. Thank you!
No, Trump is not a lawyer. Are you reading impaired?
Go to Kiev! Haha
How so? It’s no big secret that I’m no Trump fan.
So it’s OK for Trump to have no morals or sense of loyalty because he is not a lawyer?
Did the lawyers hold a high level security clearance. If not then he should not have been looking.
Democrat crew searching Mar-a-Lago office for classified documents will be one of their biggest mistakes the will never out live.
Communism on the march
Ah, ok - now I get it. You must be a lawyer. And a NeverTrumper.
You’re barking up the wrong tree here.
If Trump declassified them no clearance would be required right?
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