Cannon’s appointment of the special master slowed DOJ’s pursuit of a potential criminal case against Trump for retaining highly sensitive national security documents at Mar-a-Lago after he left office. Dearie is slated to decide next month whether to recommend that prosecutors be permitted to access the documents, though Cannon has the ultimate decision. Prosecutors say their evidence suggests Trump or his associates also attempted to obstruct DOJ’s efforts to retrieve the records.
Trump “appears to be claiming that he can unilaterally ‘deem’ otherwise Presidential records to be personal records by fiat,” Bratt wrote. “Such a reading of the PRA would nullify the statute’s entire purpose by allowing a President to designate all of his official records as ‘personal’ records and then to remove them upon departure from the White House. … It would reduce the PRA’s detailed definitions of ‘Presidential records’ and ‘personal records’ to mere suggestions.
In her ruling, Jackson rejected Judicial Watch’s effort to obtain tapes of President Bill Clinton’s interviews with a journalist that the former president had retained in a sock drawer in the White House residence. The judge ruled Clinton’s decision to keep the tapes rendered them “personal” and the National Archives did not challenge that designation.
DOJ says the 2012 opinion from Jackson is inapplicable to the current dispute, in which the National Archives challenged Trump’s designation of the records as “personal.” The Presidential Records Act permits the Archives to take steps to recover documents it deems government property.
They're not going to do a damn thing to TFG
Garland. Bring the charges already! The longer we wait the harder it will be to make the charges stick.
I think if trump DOESN’T get charged their might be a civil war ! ANY other person would long have been sentenced for life already
So why isn't he in handcuffs? One more for them another for us.
What?
SIfill_ Arrest him already.
He has been running from the law his entire life. Its time to finally make him pay.
LadyDrummer_II Can we please proceed with the process to arrest and convict the Lying King (asshole Trump) for his crimes. It's outrageous that this ugly fuck is still a free person!!
What ever it takes... Just keep piling it on, but you must promise Americans this traitor will get what he should get for all of this!
Just throw his ass in jail already
that’s a classic trump move , we should coin it
SIfill_ Hey TheJusticeDept… Arrest this fucker already!
SIfill_ Don’t forget to look into the coffin
Yeah, Dear Leader’s about to have his fat orange cowardly ass indicted.
Not a happy man 🤣
Cons love shell games.