Posted on 07/30/2023 1:01:37 PM PDT by lowbridge
Donald Trump on Sunday vehemently denied directing a staffer to delete security footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Special Counsel Jack Smith had lodged three additional charges against the embattled former president Thursday night, including over Trump allegedly telling an underling to have surveillance footage scrubbed after the Justice Department subpoenaed for it last year.
“MAR-A-LAGO SECURITY TAPES WERE NOT DELETED. THEY WERE VOLUNTARILY HANDED OVER TO THE THUGS, HEADED UP BY DERANGED JACK SMITH,” Trump wrote in all caps on Truth Social.
“WE DID NOT EVEN GO TO COURT TO STOP THEM FROM GETTING THESE TAPES. I NEVER TOLD ANYBODY TO DELETE THEM. PROSECUTORIAL FICTION & MISCONDUCT! ELECTION INTERFERENCE!” the GOP presidential contender added.
Smith’s Thursday filing also slapped charges against Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos De Oliveira, who allegedly informed the resort’s IT director that “the boss” wanted the server scrubbed. It isn’t clear whether any footage was ever deleted.
De Oliveira was hit with a charge for allegedly lying to the FBI about efforts to move boxes at the Palm Beach resort alongside Trump aide aide Walt Nauta, who was previously charged by Smith and pleaded not guilty.
The boxes allegedly contained national security documents that Trump illegally took with him when he left the White House, then lied about it to authorities afterward and kept and hid some.
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I hope he didn’t order the destruction of it. I especially hope they don’t have any proof of it, since it was under subpoena. But based on this it appears they might.
This is unfortunately equivalent to Hillary’s IT department using hammers to destroy her phones, while they were under subpeona. While someone should have paid for that, they never did, nor did they ever find any evidence Hillary ordered it.
Yes, I get the obvious double standard, but, Trump should have just handed all this stuff over, as he claimed he did, or handed none of it over, and claimed privilege.
From what I understand, the footage shows Walt Nauta moving boxes of stuff out of there a day or so before a scheduled inspection by the DOJ of what documents Trump was retaining.
Should be simple to track? Should be a written request for specific items from Smith. Should be a hand receipt given to Trump for the items turned over? This is not on a verbal level!
“Do you think the DOJ or FBI may have altered the tapes themselves”
Like adding background sound to tapes with no sound recorded?
Like they did with the January 6 tapes!
Like Hillary, those were Trump’s personal tapes of him and Melania doing yoga, in the nude!
“Do you think the DOJ or FBI may have altered the tapes themselves?”
You think Trump would be so stupid as to hand them the original and not maintain backups.
Unless the security footage was under subpoena, it it not Trump’s property to do with as he sees fit?
So if I delete my Ring doorbell footage, does that open me to criminal prosecution later if some Jack-off prosecutor comes snooping around?
I recall William F. Buckley, Jr., saying that Nixon should have burned the Watergate tapes on the White House lawn, since there were his personal property.
RE: calls prosecutor deranged.
Prosecutor: He says deranged like it’s a bad thing.
“Yet another sleezy corrupt lying lawyer.”
That describes the normal democrat lawyer. This guy is way beyond that. I believe he would actually fit into the category of evil. There’s a reason he was picked for this. He has no morals or ethics. The average corrupt lying lawyer would not be able to do what this guy is doing.
Calm down everybody. We’re watching a movie. Its all going to turn out well. Trump isn’t going to jail but a lot of deep state thugs are.
It looks to me that slime ball Smith is realizing his case is going to blow up in his FACE and he is desperate to find ANYTHING to pin on Trump!
those are trumps personal tapes. they have no right to them...just like they had no right to9 his passport and other personal papers.
Hopefully trump kept the originals or at least copies.
I highly doubt it’s tape. It’s likely electronic and easy to copy.
Every headline tries to make look bad. These people are ridiculous
DOES HE EVEN LIVE IN THE USA???
The charge is that the tapes had already been subpoenaed.
Wow, the comments at the NY Post are disturbing; it may as well be the NY Times.
Naw! Why would they? They’re such upstanding patriots!!!
/s
The tactics against Sarah Palin caused her to leave office as Governor of Alaska.
I suspect the boxes were moved by the FBI to make them look like they were carelessly stored. I think Trump was in the process of sorting files containing personal items and file that were not considered secret. These may have been the ones stored in the ballroom. However, given the evil behavior of the FBI, I think the files were planted to look like carelessness. Where are the surveillance tapes?
Scum of the earth 5th columnists such as you are even creepier than the democrats.
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