Feds raid Mar a Lago - All things Trump

[Gomez Adams]

Judge set the trial date for May 2024. About what I was expecting. (I had guessed March.)

Judge sets Trump classified-documents trial for next May

Judge Aileen Cannon split the difference between prosecutors' request for a trial date this December and Trump's bid to postpone it until after the 2024 election.

www.politico.com

 

[Gomez Adams]

Barricades go up outside Fulton County courthouse as DA nears decision on indicting Trump

Barricades went up outside the Fulton County courthouse on Thursday as District Attorney Fani Willis reportedly nears a decision on whether to indict Donald Trump over allegations the former president tried to undermine the results of Georgia’s 2020 election, New Yorker staff writer Charles...

www.rawstory.com

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Barricades went up outside the Fulton County courthouse on Thursday as District Attorney Fani Willis reportedly nears a decision on whether to indict Donald Trump over allegations the former president tried to undermine the results of Georgia’s 2020 election, New Yorker staff writer Charles Bethea reported from Atlanta.​

 

[Gomez Adams]

More charges filed against Trump in the documents case as well as another one of his helpers getting indicted along with him.

Live updates: New superseding indictment in Trump case includes charge against Carlos De Oliveira

Special counsel Jack Smith has brought additional charges against former President Donald Trump in the case alleging mishandling of classified documents, including one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts. Follow for live...

www.cnn.com

 

[Gomez Adams]

So on the news just now they spelled it out:

Apparently, the guy that just got indicted, Carlos De Oliveira, was in New York with Trump when they got the subpoena for the security video footage.

So Trump sent him back to Mar a-Lago to wipe out the servers. When he got there, he went straight to the head of IT and told him what they wanted to do. They went to a "special quite room" to discuss what was to be done.

It was all captured on the security cameras.

What's more, the IT guy has given a full accounting of everything that happened that day.

So, yeah. It's not good for team Trump. Not good at all.

 

[Zeedox]

That's the source I heard about earlier but couldn't find the story again. It was the IT head. Now, I don't know american law as well but up here that's destruction of evidence, it's federal (even if the crime was provincial is my understanding) and it carries a sentence.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Now, I don't know american law as well but up here that's destruction of evidence, it's federal (even if the crime was provincial is my understanding) and it carries a sentence.

That's what the additional obstruction charge is for.

 

[Zeedox]

 

[Gomez Adams]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1684910058243489792

I'm sure we'll see it about the same time he finally unveils his health insurance reform plans.

 

[Zeedox]

Isn't he the one they based the Jonah Hill character on in Don't Look Up?

 

[Gomez Adams]

Isn't he the one they based the Jonah Hill character on in Don't Look Up?

I have no idea. It would be fitting, though.

 

[Zeedox]

Donald Trump discovers identities of Mar-a-Lago witnesses who testified

The workers, identified in the DOJ's indictment only as Trump employees 3 and 5, are said to have provided details about Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.

www.newsweek.com

I'm not going to read it for one day and see if trump can keep his mouth shut...

 

[Gomez Adams]

Of course not.

Be he does know that pretty much everybody at Mar a-Lago was interviewed and many testified. He'll know who all of them were already because they obviously would have needed time off work to go testify. The work records will tell him exactly who went.

So he already knows.