Posted on 07/31/2023 7:43:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
In a bombshell statement, Donald Trump accused the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel Jack Smith of prosecutorial misconduct for pushing false charges that the former president had deleted security tapes related to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
Smith last week issued three superseding indictments to the 37-counts already being pursued, adding one additional Espionage Act charge, stemming from Trump’s alleged willful retention of national defense information, and two additional counts of obstruction for allegedly attempting to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump at the time blasted the move as blatant election interference, and in a series of Truth Social posts on Sunday said that the MAL security tapes had not been deleted. Trump torched Smith for dishing illegal and bogus leaks to a regime-friendly mainstream media.
“The Crooked Election Interference ‘Thugs’ from the DOJ, headed by the worst Thug of them all, Deranged Jack Smith, are now admitting that the Mar-a-Lago Security Tapes were NOT DELETED. That’s not what they were illegally leaking to the press,” Trump wrote.
“These guys should be prosecuted for MISCONDUCT. Also, whatever happened to Crooked Joe’s Documents? Where are the ones he sent and stored in Chinatown? Is Deranged Jack going to Indict him for this and, at the same time, receiving BRIBES FROM CHINA?”
Trump’s bombshell claim about the allegedly deleted tapes added critical context to previous reporting from Julie Kelly, who raised questions about the additional obstruction charge when the superseding indictment was filed.
Kelly noted that the DOJ had already admitted it has nine months of security footage from inside Mar-a-Lago, adding that Trump defense attorneys had told a judge that the “total footage equates to three years of video because of multiple cameras.”
Trump on Sunday emphatically stated that no security footage had been deleted.
“Same as the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX,” he wrote. “They knowingly accuse you of a fake crime, a crime that they actually make up, you fight these false charges hard, and they try and get you on ‘obstruction.’ We are dealing with sick and evil people!”
“I don’t believe much of what Trump says about this stuff.”
He’s got more credibility than you or any federal political prosecutor.
Of course they’re sick and evil. That’s what Libtardism is!
Seems like a personal attack. Are we doing that again?
Seems like a personal attack. I thought we stopped doing that. Did I miss the memo?
“Seems like a personal attack. Are we doing that again?”
Personal? You make such stupid claims that Trump is a liar and you think you have been attacked? Still with the Vermont liberal nonsense.
You really do give Vermont its liberal homosexual reputation.
“I wouldn’t doubt that he uses tape...he is a cheap guy”
Just another personal attack on Trump by you, troll. Trump is far from cheap and no one thinks he is cheap.
When you attack Trump, you attack America and ALL Americans including those on FR.
Not an attack, just an observation.
The charge was not that they were deleted, but that there was a conspiracy to delete - basically a thought crime. The Biden DOJ is crooked and corrupt beyond belief.
Did you see the condition of his property in the DOF images? Maintenance is not high on his Mara Lago list.
Yeah, not from VT. But nice try. Stop with the personalized attacks.
He is right. They are sick and evil.
Trump has denied that he told his staff to delete the tape.
Of course this article leaves out that part of the denial.
Trump isn’t here to defend against your slanderous attacks, so I’ll do it for him.
Of course he did. My guess is they have evidence to the contrary. Or they don’t. This is why hey have trials.
Trump is about the most honest politician we have seen during my lifetime. I trust what he says versus a thug like Jack Smith. If you have never done business in the private sector you don’t realize a dishonest person does not make it. They get a bad reputation and no one does business with them or they are shut down.
Trump knows they are going to go after him for anything and everything. I just wish he would set them up, it would probably be real easy. Not only easy, it would be hilarious.
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