Hi, everyone. It's Valkyrie York. There's brand new reporting that drives home the fact that Donald

Trump is a Zoom-wreston enemy when it comes to his many, many, many legal problems and when it

comes to the indictment in the classified documents investigation, turning him from a disgraced,

twice impeached, once indicted ex-president into a disgraced, twice impeached, twice indicted

ex-president. In that case, he has no one to blame but himself. Washington Post reports that

late last year, a team Trump hit a fork in the road. A point at which Trump could have chosen

an option that very well may have avoided an indictment in the documents case. From that new reporting,

quote, one of Trump's new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. The former president's

team could try to arrange a settlement with the Justice Department. The attorney Chris Kaice

wanted to quietly approach justice to see if he could negotiate a settlement that would preclude

charges, hoping AG Merrick Garland and the Department would want an exit ramp to avoid prosecuting

a former president. Kaice would hopefully take the temperature down, he told others, by promising

a professional approach and the return of all documents. But Trump was not interested

after listening to other lawyers who urged a more pugilistic approach. So Kaice never approached

the prosecutors, according to three people briefed on the matter. Instead, Trump listened to the

advice of conservative activist Tom Fitton, the very same guy, who before Election Day pushed for

Trump to falsely declare victory and call for the counting of ballots to stop. Once again,

from that new post reporting, quote, Trump time and time again rejected the advice from lawyers

and advisors who urged him to cooperate. And instead took the advice of Tom Fitton,

the head of the conservative group to Disho Watch, and a range of others who told him he could

legally keep the documents and should fight the Justice Department. Trump had often sight

fit into others and Fitton told some of Trump's lawyers that Trump could keep the documents,

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