Right-wing Trump supporters demand 'civil war' after indictment
March 31, 2023, 12:33 PM ET
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Key Trump defense in Mar-a-Lago doc case 'off the table' after new revelations: former prosecutor
May 27, 2023
Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade explained how a report from the Washington Post that DOJ investigators now have evidence that Mar-a-Lago employees working for Donald Trump knowingly hid documents from the FBI will ultimately cripple his attorney's defense options if the former president is indicted as expected.
With reports that the former president's legal team is preparing him for another day in court on possible obstruction and espionage charges, McQuade said that -- if the Post report is accurate -- things just took a turn for the worse for Trump.
"Well, that reporting wouldn't really catch the eye of a prosecutor because it suggests potential for obstruction of justice," McQuade told "The Saturday Show" host Jonathan Capehart.
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"When prosecutors are considering pressing charges for the mishandling of classified documents, they're typically looking for some aggravating factor beyond an innocent mistake," she elaborated. "And so here, if they really were moving boxes the day before they knew the Justice Department was coming to visit to look at them, that could suggest that they were trying to conceal or interfere with the case."
"That could be significant for a couple of reasons," she continued. "One is the charging decision, but the other is that it would really take off the table any suggestion that this was just an honest mistake, it would take off the table any question about whether it mattered about whether they were classified or not classified documents or whether Donald Trump believed that he could declassify them simply in his mind because the obstruction of justice is simply a different crime."
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Lost in the news that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's discovery list turned over to Donald Trump's lawyers contains a reference to an audio tape of a witness speaking with the former president, is a list of books the investigators appear to be relying upon -- and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted one curious inclusion.
As part of "automatic discovery" Bragg's office turned over the information related to Trump’s arrest and subsequent 34-count indictment over allegations he falsified business documents while trying to conceal a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
CBS reported, "some information, labeled 'Limited Dissemination Materials' by prosecutors, will only be available to Trump in the presence of his attorneys."
Reviewing the list, MSNBC's Rubin highlighted the fact that the books containing statements about the former president and his life before and during his presidency were included and one leaped out at her.
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As she tweeted, "In New York state, a defendant is entitled to receive all witness testimony before the grand jury and any and all other witness statements provided to the relevant prosecutor’s office. But here, the Manhattan DA’s office also attached this two-page list of books," before adding, "Why? Because these books themselves may contain relevant witness statements. And it is quite a collection. Yes, it includes journalistic hits like those written by Maggie Haberman, Bob Woodward, Jon Karl, and
@KatyTurNBC, whose book on the 2016 campaign is listed."
Notable, she pointed out, was a book by Dino Sajudin, who once worked as a Trump World Tower doorman.
"But what really popped for me was a book by Dino Sajudin, a onetime Trump World Tower doorman who was paid by the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media, for his story that Trump had a child out of wedlock with a concierge at that building," she wrote before asking, "As the New York Post notes here, Sajudin’s account has been vigorously denied by the woman in question. So is it on the list to show that AMI had a habit of catching and killing stories damaging to Trump? Or for other reasons?"
"In any event, I don’t know why Mr. Sajudin’s book is on the Manhattan DA’s discovery list, but I sure would like to find out. Watch this space," she tweeted before adding, "p.s. @KatiePhang’s memory FTW: She reminds me the payment to Dino Sajudin — and its mischaracterization in American Media’s books & records — is discussed in the DA’s statement of facts" with a screenshot that you can see below:
\u201cp.s. @KatiePhang\u2019s memory FTW: She reminds me the payment to Dino Sajudin \u2014 and its mischaracterization in American Media\u2019s books & records \u2014 is discussed in the DA\u2019s statement of facts:\u201d— Lisa Rubin (@Lisa Rubin) 1685144956
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As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) continues to negotiate a deal to avoid a debt crisis, members of the far-right Freedom Caucus are growing furious with him over broken promises he made to them.
According to MSNBC political analysts Steve Benen, with a slim GOP majority in the House, McCarthy is walking a tightrope to get a budget deal passed and may need help from House Democrats if members of his caucus refuse to go along with him.
As Benen points out, in order to win the speakership McCarthy agreed to an easier path for a motion to "vacate the chair" which could end his tenure as Speaker. That could come into play if the Freedom Caucus stages a revolt.
"... as the negotiations approach an apparent finish line, the House Republicans’ most radical faction is learning that it isn’t likely to get everything its members demanded — and for the Freedom Caucus, that’s not going to work," he wrote in his MSNBC column.
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Citing a Washington Times report that stated, "[Freedom Caucus members] want everything from the debt limit bill passed by the House last month plus several new concessions from the White House," Benen suggested far-right House Republicans are now issuing veiled threats.
In an interview, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) stated, "I am going to have to go have some blunt conversations with my colleagues and the leadership team. I don’t like the direction they are headed.”
With Politico reporting, "The [House Freedom Caucus] was already unlikely to support a final bipartisan deal, but lingering anger with Kevin McCarthy could have lasting implications on his speakership," Benen added, "If this is simply a matter of lingering ill-will from members who come to believe that GOP leaders 'caved,' the practical consequences might be limited. But let’s also not forget that McCarthy, while begging his own members for their support during his protracted fight for the speaker’s gavel, agreed to tweak the motion-to-vacate-the-chair rules, which at least in theory, would make it easier for angry House Republicans to try to oust McCarthy from his leadership position."
Adding the caveat that he is not predicting an imminent McCarthy ouster he added, "But if the scope of the Freedom Caucus’ discontent reaches a fever pitch, a hypothetical deal clears thanks to significant Democratic support, don’t be surprised if we all start hearing the phrase 'vacate the chair" a lot more frequently."
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