Judge Says Special Counsel Has Evidence Trump ‘Committed Criminal Violations’ in Mar-A-Lago Documents Case

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Judge Beryl Howell reportedly revealed last week in court that Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Trump documents investigation, has evidence that Trump committed ‘criminal violations’.

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The investigation centers around reports that Trump kept classified material at Mar-A-Lago, even though the President has power to declassify.

ABC News reports…

Prosecutors in the special counsel’s office have presented compelling preliminary evidence that former President Donald Trump knowingly and deliberately misled his own attorneys about his retention of classified materials after leaving office, a top federal judge wrote Friday in a sealed filing, according to sources who described its contents to ABC News.

U.S. Judge Beryl Howell, who on Friday stepped down as the D.C. district court’s chief judge, wrote last week that prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith’s office had made a “prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations,” according to the sources, and that attorney-client privileges invoked by two of his lawyers could therefore be pierced.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/sources-special-counsel-claims-trump-deliberately-misled-attorneys/story?id=98024191

This could mark another tough legal battle for the former President as he fights to get back to the White House in 2024. That report goes on to say….

In her sealed filing, Howell ordered that Evan Corcoran, an attorney for Trump, should comply with a grand jury subpoena for testimony on six separate lines of inquiry over which he had previously asserted attorney-client privilege.

Sources added that Howell also ordered Corcoran to hand over a number of records tied to what Howell described as Trump’s alleged “criminal scheme,” echoing prosecutors. Those records include handwritten notes, invoices, and transcriptions of personal audio recordings.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/sources-special-counsel-claims-trump-deliberately-misled-attorneys/story?id=98024191

This comes as the Trump indictment in New York has reportedly been delayed. What will happen to the former President?

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