Andrew Weissmann, who spent decades working at the federal Department of Justice, where his career included time helping with the Russia investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, argues Trump should be criminally charged in the federal investigation into the handling of classified documents recovered from his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
“The key falsity of the Bobb certification is the statement that no subpoena responsive docs were retained at MAL,” Weissmann wrote on Tuesday. “Trump had to know that statement was made to DOJ which is why he shd be charged.” The “certification” that Weissmann referenced was the signed attestation made by Trump lawyer Christina Bobb containing the contention that everything covered by a subpoena for the classified documents Trump had was getting returned, though this attestation was provided to the federal government with qualifiers. Still, recent reports in the news have further sketched out potential points when Trump was closely familiar with the response his lawyers were preparing to the federal demands for docs, leading to Weissmann’s apparent presumption of Donald’s knowledge of the falsity.
The subpoena and Bobb’s statements came before the later FBI raid. Federal prosecutors have even obtained professional notes made by another of Trump’s lawyers, Evan Corcoran, who evidently wrote of informing Trump that he could not continue harboring any of the classified documents, which various revelations have shown included highly sensitive materials. Yet, personal quarters for Trump at Mar-a-Lago were among the locations where materials were later found, both during the FBI raid and amid later searches by a third party as prosecutors worried about the possibility some of what they were seeking remained there. Announcements of criminal charges in Jack Smith’s federal investigation into these circumstances could be coming very soon after Memorial Day, news reports claimed.
The key falsity of the Bobb certification is the statement that no subpoena responsive docs were retained at MAL. Trump had to know that statement was made to DOJ which is why he shd be charged.
— Andrew Weissmann 🌻 (@AWeissmann_) May 30, 2023
