11) Sounds like Trump Attorney 1 was being tested by Trump... Trump Attorney 1 is Evan Cocoran, Trump Attorney 2 is probably Christina Bobb but that's from memory, I haven't gone through to confirm details. #TrumpIndictment
10) So Trump called Attorney 1 on the phone to get him to confirm that he was coming the next day to review the boxes for classified information. Wanna bet those wires were tapped & Trump made a perfect phone call? #TrumpIndictment
12) Trump made sure to meet with Corcoran. Anyone really believe Trump instructed him to "pluck out" the bad documents? Bobb must be attorney 3, she signed the certification without doing the search based on Corcoran i's word that he searched it. #TrumpIndictment
#TrumpIndictment Yes, the sitting president can authorize himself to classify, de-classify, possess, transport, etc. any document because the president is the highest authority of the Executive Branch as per the Constitution. This is true whether you think it's normatively good, bad, or neutral https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1667258080357240837
2) Jack Smith is a hatchet man who was unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court in his case against Bob McDonnell. His case with no legal basis against John Edwards failed
Smith is hiding who is on his staff
His wife is a Biden donor who made a Michelle Obama documentary
Here's the Espionage Act. When you look at the various section titles, and beyond, you can see that the nature of this statute has nothing to do with an application to a president or former president. Otherwise, you can imagine how the statute can be used to set up former presidents with prosecutorial techniques.
3) Jack Smith is relying on 18 U.S. Code 793, a law created in 1948 intended to stop contractors to the Defense Dept from stealing, selling, or copying U.S. defense system secrets, or patents on defense products. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793 The premise of 31-counts [each an individual document] pertain to “National Defense Security.” The subsequent six counts are predicated around the claimed 793(e) violations.
5) or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it,
4) The DOJ is not, repeat NOT, arguing a classified docs case. The entire legal framework is centered around documents they define as vital to the defense security of the United States. EVERYTHING is predicated on this 18 U.S. Code § 793(e) violation: 18 U.S. Code § 793 (e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance,
6) or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it. Despite the verbose language in the indictment, a key element of Lawfare, the case is weak. The prosecutors know it.