How Trump Deflected Demands for Documents, Enmeshing Aides

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/politics/trump-documents-lawyers.html

The former president exhibited a pattern of dissembling about the material he took from the White House, creating legal risk not just for himself but also some of his lawyers

Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted up the pressure on former President Donald J. Trump to return boxes of records he had taken from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago club, he came up with an idea to resolve the looming showdown: cut a deal.

Mr. Trump, still determined to show he had been wronged by the F.B.I. investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, was angry with the National Archives and Records Administration for its unwillingness to hand over a batch of sensitive documents that he thought proved his claims.

In exchange for those documents, Mr. Trump told advisers, he would return to the National Archives the boxes of material he had taken to Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla.

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[lees1975]

1. It's time.

Pick this guy up and hold him in jail like every other common criminal when they're arrested.

Time for the DOJ to do its job on behalf of the people instead of giving the news media something to jaw about.

[Captain Zero]

2. Those would have revealed to Putin the

Counter Intelligence staff and framework used to investigate HIM and other Russian Agents in 2016.