The Hillary Clinton email scandal was the major “scandal” that then-US presidential candidate Donald Trump spread during the 2016 election campaign. Because she was Secretary of State for sending business emails from a private account, he accused her of being careless with classified documents and called for Clinton’s arrest. Trump’s performance was accompanied by a loud “lock her up” call. Now Trump himself is accused of illegally taking documents with him when he left the White House.
During a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, the FBI allegedly took 12 boxes full of confidential material, according to the Washington Post. Such a crackdown on a former president is unprecedented in US history.
Trump himself increased sentence
Donald Trump can now face several years in prison – and he is responsible for it: In 2018, he signed a law increasing the penalty for unauthorized removal and storage of classified information from one year to five years. He turned the crime into a serious crime.
At the beginning of this year, it was announced that the National Archives, which is responsible for preserving presidential correspondence, suspected several boxes containing, among other things, confidential material in Mar-a-Lago. Trump eventually handed over several documents to the authority in January.
Taken letter from Kim Jong Un
After that, there was another exchange between investigators and Trump’s lawyers, it said. After all, the officials suspected that Trump or his team were still withholding important documents, the Washington Post wrote, citing anonymous sources. The 76-year-old is said to have hidden boxes full of government documents, gifts and letters – for example from North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un – in his property.
Trump, who was not in Mar-a-Lago when the search was conducted, wrote on Truth Social platform he founded on Wednesday that his employees installed an additional lock at the site in early June at the request of the Justice Department. and the FBI stored the boxes. “Then on Monday, without notice or warning, an army of officers broke into Mar-a-Lago, went to the same storage facility and tore open the lock they had asked to put in place. A surprise attack, political, and meanwhile our country is going to hell!”
Scope of the proof “Powdering”
The Trump raid a politically motivated process, as Republicans are now claiming? David Laufman, a legal expert and former senior US Justice Department official, vehemently contradicts this assumption in “Politico” magazine: The fact that the authority has received a search warrant in Mar-a-Lago tells him that the magnitude and quality of the evidence is “probably so damning that they dispel any idea that the search warrant and this investigation are politically motivated,” he said.
Source: Krone
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