The Guardian: Attorney’s notes show Trump was warned about keeping classified docs

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: E. Jean Carroll seeks new damages after Trump’s town hall attacks. Also, GOP donor Harlan Crow defends his relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas. Plus, debt limit talks continue as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns the U.S. could default as soon as June 1. And Michigan Democrats take action to prevent gun violence. Harry Litman, Bradley Moss, Jamelle Bouie, fmr. Sen. Claire McCaskill and Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, there is a important reporting tonight in Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's investigation
0:04.1	of Donald Trump's possession of government documents after he moved out of the White House.
0:08.1	The new reporting indicates that one of Donald Trump's criminal defencelesses may have
0:12.5	provided special prosecutor Jack Smith with highly incriminating evidence against Donald Trump.
0:20.0	The Guardian was the first to report today that federal prosecutors have evidence Donald Trump
0:24.8	was put on notice that he could not retain any classified documents after he was subpoenaed
0:31.3	for their return last year as they examine whether the subsequent failure to fully comply
0:37.5	with the subpoena was a deliberate act of obstruction by the former president.
0:42.4	The previously unreported warning conveyed to Trump by his lawyer, Evan Corcoran,
0:48.4	could be significant in the criminal investigation surrounding Trump's handling of classified
0:52.5	materials given it shows he knew about his subpoena obligations. The Guardian reports that
0:59.4	evidence against Donald Trump is contained in the roughly 50 pages of notes that the attorney kept
1:07.3	of his conversations with his client, Donald Trump. Those notes were successfully subpoenaed by Jack
1:13.7	Smith because a federal judge agreed with Smith that they could contain evidence of Donald Trump
1:19.7	planning to commit a crime. The Guardian reports, quote, the notes revealed how Trump and
1:26.7	Walt Nauda had unusually detailed knowledge of the botched subpoena response, including where
1:34.9	Corcoran intended to search and not search for classified documents at Marlago, as well as when
1:41.7	Corcoran was actually doing his search. After personally searching about 60 boxes in the
1:48.4	storage room of Trump's Florida residents, Evan Corcoran wrote a statement to the FBI and Justice
1:54.4	Spartan saying that the Trump lawyers were handing over all of the relevant documents found in what
2:01.1	Corcoran called a diligent search. That written statement was later proved to be untrue when the FBI
2:07.9	using a search warrant six weeks later, searched the Trump Florida residents and found more than 100
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