Former Trump official blasts DOJ for issuing ‘vindictive and petty’ new charges

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Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker criticized special counsel Jack Smith after he laid three additional charges against former President Trump in a superseding indictment this week, calling the move “vindictive and petty.”

“I think this last round of charges, to supersede this indictment, was to try to punish Donald Trump,” Whitaker said in a Fox News interview on Saturday. 

 

Smith originally indicted Trump on 37 counts related to mishandling of classified information at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. The three additional counts relate to alleged attempts by Trump’s aides to delete security footage of the classified information being moved around the club.

“It seems to me a little vindictive and petty,” he added. “The reason why I would say that is because these charges do not add anything, other than a new defendant, to a potential sentence if President Trump does get convicted.”

Longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta was also charged in the original indictment alongside Mar-a-Lago club manager Carlos De Oliveira — who is a new addition to the case.

Smith is also leading a separate investigation into Trump’s actions around the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol and attempts by the former president and his team to overturn the 2020 election.

 

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[Bkk Brian]

That's one opinion piece the Hill is reporting from Fox News, here's another.

 

Former Trump administration lawyer on Mar-a-Lago investigation: ‘The evidence is so overwhelming’

 

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb said there is overwhelming evidence in the classified documents case against former President Trump, following the announcement of new charges from the Department of Justice (DOJ).

 

Cobb, a lawyer who served under the Trump administration, claimed that the superseding indictment unveiled Thursday by federal prosecutors will “last an antiquity,” during an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett.

 

“I think this original indictment was engineered to last 1,000 years, and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity,” Cobb said. 

 

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4124264-former-trump-lawyer-ty-cobb-on-new-indictment/

[Tug]

Wonder why they haven’t pulled his passport yet and made him post a bond old Donnie is toast very very burnt toast.obstructing and trying to destroy evidence not to mention sharing the documents with god only knows who!petty vindictive oh pleeeaseee that’s bad ju ju old Donnie’s got himself into some serious deep deep do do 

Edited July 29, 2023 by Tug

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1 hour ago, Social Media said:

 

Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker criticized special counsel Jack Smith after he laid three additional charges against former President Trump in a superseding indictment this week, calling the move “vindictive and petty.”

“I think this last round of charges, to supersede this indictment, was to try to punish Donald Trump,” Whitaker said in a Fox News interview on Saturday. 

 

Smith originally indicted Trump on 37 counts related to mishandling of classified information at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. The three additional counts relate to alleged attempts by Trump’s aides to delete security footage of the classified information being moved around the club.

“It seems to me a little vindictive and petty,” he added. “The reason why I would say that is because these charges do not add anything, other than a new defendant, to a potential sentence if President Trump does get convicted.”

Longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta was also charged in the original indictment alongside Mar-a-Lago club manager Carlos De Oliveira — who is a new addition to the case.

Smith is also leading a separate investigation into Trump’s actions around the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol and attempts by the former president and his team to overturn the 2020 election.

 

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Actually, there is a major new charge. As some may recall, there's an audio of Trump reading from a document which he tells his listeners was classified. He said explicitly that he could have declassified it while he was President but didn't. Which kind of blew a hole in his claim that he had declassified all the documents in his possession. Then when this audio was cited as evidence against him, Trump claimed that he wasn't reading from a classified document but newspaper clippings and such. Trump's defenders claimed that no such document existed.  Jack Smith has just filed a charge against Trump under the Espionage Act for possession of a specific classified document relating to DoD military plans re Iran. This can only mean that the document has been identified. This truly is a bombsell.

"He [Trump] has since claimed that there was never any document and that he was just discussing news clippings. Previously, the document had been missing—not recovered in the search of Mar-a-Lago—and Trump’s attorneys had said they couldn’t find it. Well, apparently now Jack Smith has found it. This newly discovered document—reportedly a plan of attack against Iran—will be hung on Trump to show how careless he was with the nation’s top secrets and how he knew that he had no right to show them to anybody."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/new-mar-a-lago-charges-against-trump-jack-smith.html