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It's Coming From Inside The House: Jack Smith Has Cracked Trump

It's Coming From Inside The House: Jack Smith Has Cracked Trump

Special Counsel Jack Smith has done something that has never been done before he's broken through Trump's defenses and gotten inside.

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May 22, 2023
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The bad news is a never-ending tidal wave crashing into Mar-a-Lago. New reporting reveals that Jack Smith has notes from Trump’s lawyer warning him not to hold on to classified documents and defy a subpoena.

Via: The Guardian:

In particular, prosecutors have fixated on Trump’s valet Walt Nauta, after he told the justice department that Trump told him to move boxes out of the storage room before and after the subpoena. The activity was captured on subpoenaed surveillance footage, though there were gaps in the tapes.

The warning was one of several key moments that Corcoran preserved in roughly 50 pages of dictated notes described to the Guardian over several weeks by three people with knowledge of their contents, which prosecutors have viewed in recent months as central to the criminal investigation.

The notes revealed how Trump and Nauta had unusually detailed knowledge of the botched subpoena response, including where Corco…

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