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Trump tried to use stolen classified docs to bribe NARA for FBI smoking gun Russia docs [1]
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Date: 2022-10-10
It sounds like a crazed movie plot. From a really bad movie. Unfortunately, it’s apparently real.
It was revealed over the weekend that Donald Trump attempted to bribe the government into turning over all of the documents he stole from the White House if the government gives him all of the documents they have on the Russia investigation.
Trump has long been obsessed with the Russia probe, explained NBC political analyst Mike Schmidt. But it was former DOJ prosecutor Andrew Weissmann who noted that looking at it with his prosecutor's hat on, he sees "damning evidence."
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"How do you show that somebody like Donald Trump knew what was at Mar-a-Lago, and it wasn't just his lawyers or underlings who knew the details?" Weissmann posed. "Well, that he's trying to engage in the 'Art of the Deal' with respect to classified documents, and he's saying these documents were all mine. Those are incredibly damning statements that go directly to knowledge and intent. And you can be sure that the DOJ prosecutors are doing what I'm doing, which is listening to this going, this is making it that much easier to prove the only element that it could pose any real difficulty for the Department of Justice in bringing a case in bringing the Mar-a-Lago documents. So, yes, I agree with you, there are all sorts of horrendous things when you take the big picture, that he's thinking of trading these documents and using them this way when they're national security documents. But from a criminal perspective, his statements are even more damning and are going to be I think much more harmful to him."
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