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Judge Aileen Cannon of Florida’s Southern District appointed a former federal judge as special master to review the documents seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home. The DOJ is expected to appeal the ruling to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Meantime, there is new scrutiny on a letter reportedly signed in June by Trump’s lawyer, Christina Bobb, that affirmed all classified documents had been returned. Straight Arrow News contributor Rashad Richey says that Bobb may need her own attorney because she is now caught in the middle of the documents probe.
The reason why this is a big deal is because one of his attorneys decided to sign an affidavit swearing and affirming under penalty of perjury and prosecution, that Trump no longer had classified information. Now Mr. Trump could have signed that document, but he didn’t. I wonder why? Could it be because he knew good and damn well he still had classified information and he did not want to affix his signature to a legally binding document?
Did he set his own attorney up to take a criminal fall, like this? Or was the attorney aware that Mr. Trump probably did in fact have more classified information? If the latter is true, that means the attorney engaged in criminal conspiracy, but all of these attorneys are now needing attorneys.
There’s more. That’s appeared to be referring to the certified letter that former OAN host and Trump lawyer Christina Bobb reportedly signed, declaring that all materials taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago had been returned to the National Archives. Now number one, that is admission of guilt. A lot of people have missed that part. When the attorney signed the affidavit saying all of the things my client stole from the White House and transported to his home in Mar-a-Lago, they have now been returned…the crime is the theft…it’s not retaining the documents. It’s stealing the documents. So your attorney, Mr. Trump, has already convicted you in a court of law. That statement turned out to not be true when the attorney said there were no more classified information. There was no more classified documents. That was untrue. This is a big deal because she signed an affidavit under penalty of perjury and prosecution. Now the spin may be, the attorney says, “Oh, I was misinformed by my client.”
Doesn’t work in lawyer-land, not like that. When you have a good faith reason to believe that your – that your client misrepresented things to you as an attorney, that means you have to do additional due diligence and you are required based on your code of ethics and professional standard as an attorney to go beyond. To do, due diligence in order to maintain and verify the truth. So the attorney saying, “Well, you know, I just said what my client said.” No, ma’am.
