Fox Contributor Andy McCarthy Breaks Down The Crux Of Trump’s Meaty Indictment
Brianna Lyman
News and Commentary Writer
June 09, 2023 5:14 PM ET
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Former assistant U.S. attorney and Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy explained the crux of the Trump indictment Friday.
Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday he was being indicted, with the official indictment being unsealed Friday. The charges against Trump include 31 counts of alleged violation of the Espionage Act or the willful retention of national security information, as well as one count of “conspiracy to obstruct justice,” one count of “withholding a document or record,” one count of corruptly concealing a document or record,” one count of “concealing a document in a deferral investigation,” one count of “scheme to conceal” and one count of “false statements and representations.”
Fox News’ John Roberts asked McCarthy for his initial reaction.
“On the surface, how are you struck by what we’re hearing?”
“I have been saying all along I thought the obstruction was going to be the Big Kahuna here in the sense that what we understood about the facts was that they had issued former President Trump a grand jury subpoena and they had caused, or he had caused, according to the theory, his lawyers to give false information to the FBI to be transmitted to the grand jury about whether he had turned over all the stuff in his possession,” McCarthy said.
“What I’m struck by reading the indictment now, first of all, it’s very detailed, it’s a narrative indictment, it’s not a bare bones thing where they’re just talking about the statutory offenses. And the first almost three dozen counts in this indictment are related specifically to classified documents. That is, you know, to the extent that we were led to believe that there might be one or two classified documents counts, in fact there are over 30, and what they’ve done, I think, is taken the most sensitive of the documents and charged them as separate counts.”
Host Sandra Smith noted that in 2021, according to the indictment, Trump allegedly showed several people at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, a plan of attack that was reportedly prepared for him by the Department of Defense. Trump told the individuals the material was secret, and though he could have declassified it while in office, he technically could not declassify it since he was out of office, the indictment alleges.
McCarthy said there was both a political and legal claim.
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