![]() ![]() Second, uh, there are several things wrong with that, as one might assume based on the multiple charges to that effect. There’s nothing wrong with that….”įirst of all, many people said that, including the National Archives and Records Administration, which spent over a year asking for the government documents he’d sequestered, and the FBI subpoena that told him to turn over all classified documents in his possession. That’s the only explanation I have for why he keeps posting through it even as he’s under federal indictment.įor example, this afternoon Trump posted the following on TruthSocial: “Nobody said I wasn’t allowed to look at the personal records that I brought with me from the White House. His rants - whether on TruthSocial or at a rally - are meant to shape the opinion of his supporters, not stand up in the face of logic or legal scrutiny. I get that a lot of Trump’s shtick involves preaching to the choir. And in cooperating with the investigation, she got the chance to make sure the DOJ knew her side of the story and avoid taking the fall for Trump and Nauta. That information, we now know, was blatantly false. ![]() ![]() And while she did sign her name to a certification as “Trump Attorney 1” requested, she had “performed no search of TRUMP’s boxes, had not reviewed the May 11 Subpoena, and had not reviewed the contents of the Redweld folder.”īobb also made sure that the note included a caveat, that the statements inside were true “ased upon the information that been provided to” her. Though the document doesn’t name Bobb, it’s clear that she’s the person referred to as “Trump Attorney 3,” based on previous reporting on her role in this mess. Bobb, you may note, was not named as a co-conspirator in the indictment against the former president and Trump aide Walt Nauta. That’s because it was Bobb who signed her name to a document professing to the FBI and Department of Justice that all classified documents had been handed over in compliance with a grand jury subpoena. I wrote last year about how badly Christina Bobb wanted to join Trump’s team - and how much she must have regretted it by the time she left his service. Even if this applies to the presidency, it certainly is not implicated by the indictment we saw today. The only potential exception to this rule comes from a little-known portion of the 14th Amendment, which provides that people who have engaged in, or given comfort to those who engaged in an insurrection cannot hold federal office. Meaning, Congress cannot pass a law that says convicted felons are barred from being president. The best reading of the Constitution indicates that Congress cannot, by statute, add any qualifications to this list. The Constitution lays out the exclusive list of qualifications to be president, and Trump fits all of those - he was born in this country, is over 35 years old, and has lived here for more than 14 years. Nothing in the Constitution explicitly prohibits a convicted felon, even one convicted of putting our country at national security risk, from serving as our nation’s leader. But that would not bar him from serving as the next president of the United States. If Trump is convicted for these serious federal charges, it would demonstrate that he put this country, our military and our allies at very real risk. ![]()
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