providing that the united states reserves and retains complete ownership, possession and control of presidential records. for more than a year, and despite multiple opportunities to remedied situation and return materials that rightly belong to the federal government, donald trump refused to cooperate time and time again. as we know now from the indictment unsealed by the department of justice yesterday, the former president and his personal valet, and now codefendants, walt nauta have both been indicted. trump along faces 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, and one count of false statements. both men are also charged with one count each of his conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document, corruptly concealing a document, concealing and documents in a federal investigation, and a scheme to conceal. not to has also in charge for making false statements. the government alleges in his indictment that it s not only a passive bystander that go
the former president s compound. we re reading through it in real time. almost half of the 38 pages is, in fact, redacted, but also having some major new information, including information about what the fbi found in an initial search of those 15 boxes of dominates former president trump s team turned over to the national archives. in those boxes they found 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as confidential, 92 as secret, 25 as top secret. also going into detail about the specific areas of mar-a-lago that are not authorized locations for the storage of classified information, mentioning three areas called former president trump s residential suite in an area called pine hill n an area called the 45 office. we also have the document written by the justice department to justify those redactions, also a lot of information in there mentioning threats of violence made towards fbi agents and more. we have a team going through all of
instruction or order, not just something that was plucked from from the air and interpreted by one person, but there is some inischia they would have to prove. one way to think about circumstantial evidence is, i didn t see it snow. i went to bed and the grass was green and i woke up and there was a blanket of snow. i can infer there was snow. case in point. there was a conversation alegend in this actual doc indutiment involving the new defendant that talks about a new 24-minute conversation, that talks about going down to talk to the i.t. director and the surveillance footage, pushback from the director about the ability to do anything about it, wanting to speak in private, revisiting the boss afterward. there are notions that could form that ebb dish ya of circumstantial evidence. the strongest would be an auto
chief, he had a unique constitutional responsibility to protect the nations clots of fide information, including controlling who has access to it. this is what this man said when he was the president. yet, his callous disregard for the classified information, is storing it all over mar-a-lago, including in fall rooms and bathrooms, showing it to people, clearly without classification clearance or a need to know, shows that he was very well aware of what his responsibilities were and he completely and utterly neglected them, flaunted them. and appears he uses information for its own purposes. that s a love piece we don t know. the two examples i ve been showing and sharing classified information seem to be just personally self-motivated what do we not know what frank said. let s talk a little bit about what we do know, frank? this describes this previously auto recording that donald
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