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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Mar-a-Lago Raid => Topic started by: mystery-ak on September 19, 2023, 12:42:51 am
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Trump wrote to-do lists for Mar-a-Lago assistant on classified documents: report
By Victor Nava
Published Sep. 18, 2023, 8:04 p.m. ET
Former President Donald Trump scrawled to-do lists for one of his Mar-a-Lago assistants on documents with classified markings, according to a report.
Molly Michael, a former White House executive assistant who continued working for Trump after his presidency, told federal investigators that on more than one occasion she received tasks from the 77-year-old former president written on the back of notecards with visible classification markings, according to ABC News.
The notecards reportedly contained information related to phone calls with foreign leaders or other international-related matters.
It’s unclear if any of the notecards are among the classified documents that Trump is charged with unlawfully retaining.
Michael, whom multiple outlets have identified as “Trump Employee 2” in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment related to Trump’s handling of sensitive White House documents, transferred the notecards to the FBI after she discovered that agents did not take them after the Aug. 8, 2022, search of Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., club and residence.
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https://nypost.com/2023/09/18/trump-wrote-to-do-lists-on-classified-documents-report/
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Is Trump okay? It's not like him to leave a paper trail.
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Is Trump okay? It's not like him to leave a paper trail.
It's not that what he was writing was itself illegal. It's that he was writing it on the back of documents clearly marked as classified, which it'll be harder for him to claim he didn't know he had classified documents in his possession.
I also think part of his problem in that documents case is that he was used to having a sleazy personal "fixer" lawyer in Cohen who was willing to lie, cover up, or destroy/hide documents on his behalf.
But that doesn't work when you start getting to large, more reputable firms and larger matters with multiple lawyers.
My guess is that is going to end up burning him.
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It's not that what he was writing was itself illegal. It's that he was writing it on the back of documents clearly marked as classified, which it'll be harder for him to claim he didn't know he had classified documents in his possession.
I also think part of his problem in that documents case is that he was used to having a sleazy personal "fixer" lawyer in Cohen who was willing to lie, cover up, or destroy/hide documents on his behalf.
But that doesn't work when you start getting to large, more reputable firms and larger matters with multiple lawyers.
My guess is that is going to end up burning him.
:thumbsup:
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Can we see a photo of one of these note cards with visible classified markings?