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Eric Trump: Democrats Went Through Barron’s Underwear Drawer! – ‘It’s Rape And Pillage’

According to Eric Trump, the son of failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump, it’s bad enough that his daddy has been charged with serious federal crimes that could send him to prison for the rest of his life, but the FBI agents who raided Mar-a-Lago also (gasp!) went though Barron Trump’s underwear drawer!!

The horror. The horror.

That wasn’t all Eric had to say during an appearance on Newsmax in which he also claimed that Democrats are engaged in the systematic “rape and pillage” of their political enemies.

“If you get in the way of the Democratic Party, if you question their power, if you interfere with their little fiefdom, they will target you, they will come after you, and they will try and destroy your life,” he told host Carl Higbie.

“It is rape and pillage. They will burn down the street. It doesn’t matter for these people, they will take out innocent people. They will go after your family, they will go after your kids, you know, they will raid Barron’s room — who’s a 16-year old, 15-year old kid — they’ll go through his underwear drawer, they’ll send the FBI, they’ll spy on your campaign. We’ve seen it all.”

Then again, the FBI only shows up and raids your home when you refuse to comply with a lawful subpoena, a fact that Eric conveniently neglected to mention.

We should all be thankful, the president’s second-oldest son declared, that we have Donald Trump to protect us all from such indignities.

“Thank God you have a guy like Donald Trump who has a lot of money behind his name, who is able to fight these people, who has a very loud voice. He’s the strongest man I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I’ve spent the last 72 hours with him; the guy’s the strongest man in the world, he cannot be run over, he will not be intimidated, he will not stop.”

“He will leave the courthouse, he will do an off-the-record stop — meaning, he’ll go to a restaurant — and then he’ll give a campaign speech that very same night after he gets indicted on 37 counts. Because he knows the game. He has to stand up to the nonsense in this country, otherwise we’re not going to have democracy anymore. Because these people are trying to subvert democracy. They’re trying to take away peoples’ vote by controlling every aspect of the system.”

So it’s cool if you break the law and endanger U.S. national security, but if you look through someone’s drawers, suddenly you’re Atilla the Hun. Good to know that Eric has his priorities in place, huh?

 

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Trump Now Says He Didn’t Return Boxes Of Docs Because They Contained ‘Shirts And Shoes And Everything’

The latest excuse/defense from failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump for why he had dozens of boxes of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida is that some of the boxes also contained “shirts and shoes.”

Speaking to supporters Tuesday evening at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club, just hours after he had been arraigned on 37 federal criminal counts, Trump tried out his latest bogus excuse, The Independent reports.

“Many people have asked me why I had these boxes, why did you want them? The answer, in addition to having every right under the Presidential Records Act, is that these boxes were containing all types of personal belongings — many, many things, shirts and shoes, everything.”

The disgraced ex-president also claimed that he hadn’t had time to look through all of the boxes and retrieve his personal items, which he said explained why he’d been busted red-handed with top-secret files.

“I hadn’t had a chance to go through all the boxes. It’s a long tedious job, it takes a long time — which I was prepared to do, but I have a very busy life. I’ve had a very busy life.”

In just a few months time, we’ve gone from Trump saying he had declassified all the documents to now claiming he was storing clothes in boxes with the files and was far too busy to separate them.

Let’s hope Donald will insist that his attorneys use his latest defense when the case goes before a jury. If they do, the jurors will find him guilty in less than a half-hour.

 

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DOJ Will Ask Grand Jury To Indict Trump On Espionage Act And Obstruction: Report 

The U.S. Department of Justice and Special Counsel Jack Smith will ask a federal grand jury to indict failed former president Donald Trump on charged of obstructing justice and violating the Espionage Act.

The Independent reports that Smith will request those indictments as soon as Thursday.

The Independent has learned that prosecutors are ready to ask grand jurors to approve an indictment against Mr Trump for violating a portion of the US criminal code known as Section 793, which prohibits “gathering, transmitting or losing” any “information respecting the national defence”.

The use of Section 793, which does not make reference to classified information, is understood to be a strategic decision by prosecutors that has been made to short-circuit Mr Trump’s ability to claim that he used his authority as president to declassify documents he removed from the White House and kept at his Palm Beach, Florida property long after his term expired on 20 January 2021.

Under the Espionage Act 1917, the maximum penalty is 10 years in prison for each count. Obstruction carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.

Another grand jury is meeting in Florida to hear evidence in the case of the classified documents Trump allegedly had in violation of federal law. Reportedly, he was found to be in possession of 103 documents bearing classification markings. 8 were marked “top secret,” 54 “secret,” and 31 marked as “confidential.”

The Washington Post is reporting that Trump could also be charged with perjury and making false statements when it comes to the documents in question.

Additionally, we learned Tuesday that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has testified before Smith’s grand jury on the matter of the documents and also the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol., which could result in Trump being charged with seditious conspiracy.

As you’d expect, Trump has been melting down on his pathetic social media site, Truth Social, claiming that he has not been told he will be indicted.

No one has told me I’m being indicted, and I shouldn’t be because I’ve done NOTHING wrong, but I have assumed for years that I am a Target of the WEAPONIZED DOJ & FBI, starting with the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX, the “No Collusion” Mueller Report, Impeachment HOAX #1, Impeachment HOAX #2, the PERFECT Ukraine phone call, and various other SCAMS & WITCH HUNTS. A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE & ELECTION INTERFERENCE AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE. REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS MUST MAKE THIS THEIR # 1 ISSUE!!!

Translation: He’s being indicted, and he’s scared shitless.

 

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Legal Expert: Trump’s Problems Just Went From ‘Bad To Worse’ In Documents Case

A report from the Washington Post suggesting that disgraced former president Donald Trump left classified documents in plain view at his Mar-a-Lago resort and may also have shared them with others is the worst possible news and means his legal liability has gone from “bad to worse” according to attorney Norm Eisen.

In a column he wrote for MSNBC, Eisen notes there’s more than enough evidence to indict Trump for obstruction of justice, but the Post report means the stakes are even higher now.

If Trump had really showed off classified documents to people at Mar-a-Lago, then that would add to what we already know of his legal liability,” Eisen writes. “Just by retaining the documents, Trump would face liability for apparent willful possession and retention of the classified documents pertaining to national defense. Under section 793(e) of the Espionage Act, it is a criminal offense for a person without authorization to willfully retain classified documents and fail to deliver them to an officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive them.

And that’s where things get even stickier for the ex-president, Eisen explains.

… purposefully showing classified documents to others without authorization, in the manner reported by the Post and the Times, would go beyond retaining classified documents as prohibited by the statute. It likely constitutes an even more egregious violation of the Espionage Act under the clause prohibiting the willful communication, delivery or transmission of classified documents.

The bottom line is that the Justice Department’s case against the scofflaw former head of state “is becoming clearer and potentially more damning — and the possible consequences for Trump more dire.”

Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith is expected to announce indictments against Trump as soon as next week, according to some reports.

 

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Jack Smith Will Have No Choice But To Charge Trump With Espionage: Legal Expert

Based on recent reporting that failed former president Donald Trump may have shown classified documents people who visited him at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Special Counsel Jack Smith will be charging the ex-president with espionage as well as obstruction of justice, a state attorney said Wednesday.

On April 2, The Washington Post reported that Trump may have shared classified information with others.

As investigators piece together what happened in May and June of last year, they have been asking witnesses if Trump showed classified documents, including maps, to political donors, people familiar with those conversations said.

That, according to Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg, would constitute a direct violation of the Espionage Statute found in federal law.

During an appearance on “Deadline: White House” Wednesday, Aronberg noted:

“I think the reason that they asked about the map is another statute, 18 USC 719 (e), ‘The Espionage Statute,’ says that someone who is unauthorized to have possession of a map and then shows it to someone who can’t see it violates that statute,” Aronberg explained. “So, they’re not just going after him for obstruction, but also espionage, which is punishable by up to ten years in prison. That’s why there’s a lot of trouble ahead. That’s why Bill Barr is saying, hey, this is the tough one. It’s not New York that will do in the former president in. I think it’s the Mar-a-Lago documents because there’s a direct tie between the former president and the alleged criminality there.”

Keep in mind that’s ten years for each count of violating the Espionage Statute. And Trump could be charged for every single time he took the documents out and showed them to others who didn’t have a valid security clearance. Two people would be 20 years. If he showed them to 10 people, he’d be facing a century in federal prison.

Things are about to get much worse for Donald Trump. The only question that remains is when Smith will hand down the indictments against the former president and exactly what crimes the former president will be charged with.