In a report from Fox News that, besides any availability elsewhere, was shared on Twitter by host Bret Baier, it’s come out that multiple Secret Service agents connected to former President Donald Trump will soon be testifying in the criminal investigation into the handling of classified documents recovered from Trump’s southern Florida resort known as Mar-a-Lago.
They will be appearing under subpoena. “FOX News is told multiple U.S. Secret Service agents connected to Former President Donald Trump have been subpoenaed & are expected to testify before the D.C. grand jury likely on Friday,” Baier’s post said. “The grand jury appearances are related to the Special Counsel Jack Smith probe into the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.”
That probe, of course, is among several avenues of potentially criminal liability for Trump, including the unfolding criminal case in Manhattan connected to falsified business records stemming from the hush money illegally provided before the 2016 elections to Stormy Daniels. The investigation into circumstances surrounding those documents is in the purview of Special Counsel Jack Smith, who with his team can bring criminal charges according to the largely independent powers he was provided. Other recent developments in that probe include the testimony given by Evan Corcoran, a lawyer for Trump who’s helped handle his side of things amid this dispute. An appeals court upheld another judge’s earlier conclusion there was enough of a showing of potentially criminal activity to get around claims of attorney-client privilege covering topics where prosecutors focused.
As reported right here, ABC had some details about the areas of inquiry in which the Justice Department was interested with Corcoran. That list includes details about potential awareness from Trump and others about the signed attestation provided to the federal government in the middle of last year claiming everything covered by a subpoena for the classified records Trump had was getting returned. Corcoran has already been identified as having drafted the claim, and it was signed, with qualifications attached, by fellow Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, but it could be shown others — particularly Trump — also had a role. Authorities also wanted to know about the contents of a conversation Corcoran had with the ex-president on the day that the Trump Organization was hit with a subpoena for surveillance footage that would depict relevant areas at Mar-a-Lago.
Relatedly, reports also recently revealed a rejection of variously looming privilege claims over former aides to Trump like Mark Meadows, whose testimony was sought in the parallel investigation into political schemes to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
FOX News is told multiple U.S. Secret Service agents connected to Former President Donald Trump have been subpoenaed & are expected to testify before the D.C. grand jury likely on Friday. The grand jury appearances are related to the Special Counsel Jack Smith probe into the…
— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) April 3, 2023
