DOJ: Mar-A-Lago Docs Were “Concealed And Removed”

CNN reports:

US government documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago as part of an effort to “obstruct” the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s potential mishandling of classified materials, the Justice Department said in a blockbuster court filing Tuesday night.

More than 320 classified documents have now been recovered from Mar-a-Lago, the Justice Department said, including more than 100 in the FBI search earlier this month.

Tuesday’s filing represents the Justice Department’s strongest case to date that Trump concealed classified material he was keeping at Mar-a-Lago in an attempt to obstruct the FBI’s investigation into the potential mishandling of classified material.

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Justice Department says classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were “likely concealed and removed” to block investigation https://t.co/FrHX5dKLnb

— CNN (@CNN) August 31, 2022

Key take aways: Trump and two of his attorneys are in big trouble for obstruction of justice; and proof of Trump knowledge got stronger: classified docs all over, including his office and with personal items, and deliberately withheld. Legal arguments compelling.

— Andrew Weissmann ? (@AWeissmann_) August 31, 2022

To sum up: DOJ filing shows Trump was put on notice of the criminal investigation in May through a grand jury subpoena. He lied in response, keeping documents while claiming to have turned over all of them. This is criminal obstruction of justice. A big, easily proved crime. https://t.co/ZwzNlfF4nD

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) August 31, 2022