A judge has ordered Trump's lawyer to provide evidence related to an alleged criminal scheme, as per special counsel Jack Smith's claims that the ex-president misled his attorneys about classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who led special counsel Bob Mueller’s successful prosecution of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, predicted that the order could be a “gold mine” for proving Trump obstructed the Mar-a-Lago probe in “precisely the same way that Manafort obstructed the DOJ investigation by having his lawyers repeat to the [government] a series of lies.”.
Howell in her order agreed that Smith’s prosecutors have shown that Trump appeared to have committed crimes but stressed that prosecutors will need to meet a higher bar of evidence to bring charges or seek a conviction. “It is a lower hurdle, but it is an indication that the government had presented some evidence and allegation that they had evidence that met the elements of a crime,” Brandon Van Grack, a former top national security official at the Justice Department, toldHowell found “sufficient” evidence that Trump “intentionally concealed” the existence of additional classified documents from Corcoran before he drafted a document claiming that a “diligent search” of Mar-a-Lago turned up just 38 classified...
, who is representing Trump in the Fulton County, Ga. investigation into his efforts to overturn the election in the state. It’s unclear why prosecutors targeted Little but Howell ordered her to testify as well, with one exception for a topic she sought to assert attorney-client privilege over. Trump’s attorneys appealed Howell’s ruling on Tuesday and an appellate court panel could rule as early as Wednesday morning on the order. Both sides could appeal again after the appeals court rules on the order.“Shame on Fake News ABC for broadcasting ILLEGALLY LEAKED false allegations from a Never Trump, now former chief judge, against the Trump legal team,” a Trump campaign spokesperson said in a statement to.
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