…because, of course, no competent lawyer would ever think to take an actual inventory of the boxes prior to turning them over. They’d need months of access to the boxes to pull a stunt like that!
FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024
Looks like Walt Nauta is represented by Stanley Woodward.
I’m not sure who is paying Woodward’s salary. Where he gets his funding from is a bit… obscure to be polite.
Woodward was also the lawyer for Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs (found guilty, sentenced to 12 years) and Ryan Samsel, charged in August for assaulting police at the capital, with 10 or so previous assaults under his belt.
If Woodward is a competent lawyer (and articles say that he is), he should advise his client to cooperate at every turn, or he’ll wind up like Kelly Meggs, with 12 years hard time.
Not only that, but IIRC when he made that claim he also said he wanted them back.
CNN was saying that both his and TRump’s lawyers are being paid by a Trump-friendly super PAC.
Here’s a Politico article on Woodward:
So, was Loose Cannon there? I haven’t had a chance to see much reporting yet and thought I’d come here first.
I’m really tired of hearing that trump has to be treated with more deference than other defendants who swiped sensitive government documents because of the office he held. It’s crap.
And isn’t there sort of a philosophy in western democracies that national leaders are just average citizens who aren’t “special people”? If that’s really the case then should they not be subject to the same crap as the rest of us?
Looks like the max for hauta’s charges would be 18 years and 1.5 million in fines.
Judge today was John Goodman. World of hurt.
I loved him in The Big Lebowski.
It’s a bit hard to assess “lesser charge” because of a key difference: so far as is known, Trump didn’t disclose anything, just kept the docs in terribly insecure locations and refursed to return them. Winner, on the other hand, did disclose information to an unauthorised inidividual, a reporter with the Intercept.
Does disclosure make it worse than Trump’s hoarding? Or better, since the purpose was to let the US public know?
I wonder how often he’ll get to tell Donny to shut the fuck up.
Therein lies the rub. When “unknown,” assume the worst.
He did, though. It’s in the indictment. He showed them to persons not authorized to see them. (Allegedly.)
THERE ARE RULES!
Read the indictment again. He disclosed them to reporters and to a member of his political action committee.
And maybe Kid Fucking Rock. No shit.
I think he’s the PAC member.
Meanwhile, I have real concerns about trump meddling with witnesses. These pictures, the information- it came from people working in Mar A Lago. It was, I presume, the poor schlubs who had to physically move those heavy fucking boxes from room to room.
Is the government taking any measures to protect these people? They will have to, in short order, disclose their names to donald’s legal team.
Why? Yes its a lousy defense, but can you come up with a better one?
I’m personally curious how they are going to defend the indefensible.
Pertaining to boxes of documents, anyway.