Damning Evidence Blows Up Trump’s Classified Documents Defense

https://newrepublic.com/post/181811/trump-classified-documents-new-evidence-obstruction

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  2. > It appears he told his Mar-a-Lago staff to avoid security cameras when moving boxes.

    Known for a year. Hyperbolic headline.

  3. I simply don’t understand how something with such high stakes can be allowed to be handled by such an obvious Trump stooge. It’s mind boggling to me.

  4. He would have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for that damning evidence 😂

    I *still* have little faith he’ll ever be convicted of a crime, no matter how much evidence is presented though but here’s to hoping 🤷🏿‍♀️

  6. Too bad USA doesn’t have like, a justice system to punish crimes like these.

  7. This stuff had already been heard by the Grand Jury leading up to indictment. We are only learning about it now when unsealed. It doesn’t change the dynamics of recent rulings on the case, but it should remind us that Trump does not deserve any votes. This trial will not decide whether Trump becomes president again. The general election will decide. Make sure you are registered to vote.

  8. No worries that corrupt maga judge, Aileen Cannon will make short work of that.

  9. It’s only damning if the judge gives a shit, which she doesn’t. So…

  11. Did Judge Cannon’s obsession with trying to delay these proceedings lead to these new discoveries potentially affecting his current documents case?

  12. > Legal analysts worry that these delays could be the Trump-appointed judge’s way of surreptitiously dismissing the trial altogether.

    I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t think I’ve seen this directly addressed anyplace. What recourse does the prosecution have if the judge is deliberately slow-walking the trial? I assume that if the judge makes a ruling they disagree with, they can appeal it, but if she just… sits… on it… is there some mechanism where the prosecution call call for a mistrial or something similar?

    Some of these questions probably haven’t come up before because there’s never been a president as openly and notoriously contemptuous of the law and Constitution as Trump, so there isn’t a lot of precedent, and that might cause any judge to take longer to make a ruling. But could she literally sit on the case for the rest of her term and NEVER rule on any of the questions that are stopping the trial?

  13. I’m fairly certain the “damning evidence” was the day of the raid when it was revealed how much he had stolen, but ok

  14. Too bad Trump’s hand picked judge overseeing this case has just said “We’re stopping everything indefinitely. Go win in November so we can get rid of this case, dear leader Trump!”

  15. Just waiting for the leaked tapes of Cannon meeting the gop advisors and the cash payoff. Next year she will be traveling in an RV and taking expensive vacations on yachts.

  16. So if I have this straight from reading the article, what was unsealed was just the text of the lower court judge’s decision? Sure the lower court judge is saying “yes, it looks like he probably kept docs from investigators and did a cover-up”, but we already knew that. This isn’t really new evidence, is it? It’s just newly available insight into what a different judge thought.

    Headline writers… SMH…

  17. Too bad the judge in that case is acting as defense counsel.

  18. It doesn’t matter at this point if the judge is crooked

  21. There is no need for a defense as long as Cannon is the judge.

  22. Serious question. Is anyone looking for backchannel communications between Judge Cannon and Team Trump?

  23. ‘The evidence of crimes against the United States is soooo overwhelming, I can’t deal with it until after the election’

    – Judge Cannon

  25. You know how weathermen can be wrong 50% of the time, and still keep their job?

    Cannon took it a step further by proving a Judge doesn’t even *have* to do their job, and still keep their job.

  26. Prosecution: we have video evidence of trump killing 3 puppies and a nun caught on 100, 4k video angles. While pissing on the original copy of the constitution and pooping his pants.

    Judge cannon: Well….I cant rule on this. We’ll wait till later.

  27. Can’t really “blow up a defense” when the courts aren’t prosecuting him. And 95% of mainstream media and stupid society won’t either.

  28. The only way that democracy will survive in this country is if Trump isn’t around in November.

  29. What more evidence do they need? We were absolutely positive he committed a crime prior to this evidence, but now we are doubly absolutely positive!

  30. i mean ,were the pictures of the boxes of documents next to his shitter and a copier not damning enough?

  31. “This evidence is unfair to my client, uh, I mean, the defendant. -100 points from Gryffindor!”

    -Aileen Cannon, probably

  32. Imagine the tyrant who comes after all these lawsuits if he gets elected.

  33. I’m Scottish and I’m struggling to understand how he is still running for president if he is currently under criminal investigation?

    Does he still run if he is guilty? What happens? It seems like no one is saying he shouldn’t be but once again I’m not from America so idk how this works can someone explain?

  34. Republicans are really putting all their chips on orange lol. When he loses in a landslide this November he’s gonna get fried in the courts.

  35. Too bad that case is never going anywhere thanks to the judge.

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