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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking on MSNBC - Judge finds evidence of crime in Trump doc scandal
Looks like the DoJ has convincing evidence, enough for even a Judge, that Trump committed a crime with regard to the document theft.
No surprise, but I wonder what this will lead to.
Bayard
(21,806 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)...ordered to appear before the Grand Jury?
They are attempting to find the origin of the missing documents and who was passing them to Trump? Ratcliffe is a rat.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,369 posts)Because there was evidence of a crime.
mucifer
(23,374 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,369 posts)So yes, you did hear it the other day, and you heard it again today.
It's from earlier this week, though.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/politics/corcoran-trump-testimony/index.html
By Sara Murray, Kaitlan Collins and Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 11:10 PM EDT, Tue March 21, 2023
CNN
The Justice Department has convinced a federal judge that former President Donald Trump used one of his defense attorneys in furtherance of a crime or fraud related to the existence of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
The finding part of a major ruling Friday from Judge Beryl Howell of the DC District Court makes clear for the first time that the Justice Department is arguing it has evidence that Trump may have committed a crime. And Howell ruled that prosecutors met the burden to overcome Trumps right to shield discussions with his lawyers normally protected under attorney-client privilege.
[...]
Judges Nina Pillard, Michelle Childs and Florence Pan of the DC Circuit have demanded more information and arguments by early Wednesday morning, setting a deadline for Trump and his lawyers by midnight and for prosecutors to respond by 6 a.m.
The extremely tight deadlines a turnaround essentially unheard of in this court indicates the seriousness of the matter.
[...]
muriel_volestrangler
(101,154 posts)and are they eg a legal expert, or a journalist with a source in the DoJ, or just a general commentator?
cilla4progress
(24,589 posts)am I missing it?
TeamProg
(5,788 posts)BradBo
(516 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Is that now considered a "theft" and not a mistake?
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Woot
Smackdown2019
(1,169 posts)Thats how he will go.......
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)THESE charges should come before Stormy
Justice matters.
(6,874 posts)Agents abroad, those still alive, are waiting to resume their important work to protect the nation.
Allied nations are waiting to resume sharing their intel with the US and until that hair furhair is locked up, they will be wary to do that.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,154 posts)The best guess is that it's not "breaking", but what was said a few days ago.
republianmushroom
(13,061 posts)Sure would of been, if it had been me. His attorneys sign how many affidavits that there wasn't any more,
but they just kept showing up. And even on a lap top. So, now, a judge finally says, yep, there is evidence that a crime has been committed.
AverageOldGuy
(1,463 posts). . . that it was only a few short years ago that Trump's adoring crowds were shouting "LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!"?
Does anyone else remember that?
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)No need for rationality or logic or even actually charges being brought, just incendiary statements to the press to rile up their base.
And news media outlets will happily cooperate.