>An aide to former President Donald Trump has also been indicted for taking part in an alleged scheme to obstruct government efforts to retrieve top-secret documents from his Mar-a-Lago resort.The Wall Street Journal reports that Walt Nauta, a former military valet who followed Trump to Mar-a-Lago af...
>Smith is a former federal prosecutor who briefly served as the acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee in 2017. Prior to his six-month stint as U.S. Attorney in the Trump administration, he was the assistant U.S. Attorney for the district starting in 2015.
>Former President Trump on Thursday swiftly moved toward fundraising efforts after claiming he’s been indicted in connection with the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents. “We are watching our Republic DIE before our very eyes.
Lots of people asking if #JackSmith is doing this for convenience or legitimacy.
No. He's going to present the case where venue is, period. There may be reasons why he HAS to present 793 or false statements charges in FL. There may be reasons why he HAS to present 1519 or 2071 in DC.
Why does Jack Smith have classified document grand juries in Washington DC and Florida? He may be indicting Trump in DC since that’s where Trump first stole the docs, and indicting the underlings in Florida since that’s where they first got involved in obstructing the documents.
It could also be that Smith is indicting Trump for classified documents in DC because he’ll also be indicting Trump for January 6th and wire fraud in DC, and wants all the charges against Trump to be in the same circuit.
We’ll find out soon enough why Smith is doing it this way. But the real story is that none of us knew until TODAY that Jack Smith even had two different grand juries in the classified documents case. That’s just how little we know about what all Smith has been doing.
👉🏼👉🏼👀 “Lawyers for #Trump are meeting with #DOJ officials on Monday following a public request for a meeting about what they characterize as prosecutorial misconduct.”