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NYT-Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump's Foreign Business Deals Since 2017
The Special Prosecutor is seeing if TFG sold or was compensated for the records he took. This includes Saudi Arabia and the sketchy golf deal
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/politics/trump-records-foreign-deals.html?unlocked_article_code=xuy0UpjW8gnUpQx1KD4HTQk0rm_4W8h9q81vmJmHx-Xpgosb7Gddm-t4IOWkOf6UxaFB4ulZGDVNCawNC5GF2nrIseNtglSYriAN-oRnuyMPC4IquGobygIC8uzrbVb3OsP8z8TM8Zk9WyOHPL8FS0I2z5ISGwDtptd-VrI5L5nDerSn8kNb_-PqujWK4QRFRHbGDw8PKgpsRHCakmgom9x-SDBOZSsK158JSWcTqGuBb_rzaYTycjnxCnUGkCNLeOIFOZ_bjhnLUUz6WMIjZ4kMuu5iQvC-deb7V8pQ7fVx116T_-36lY8u5ifafo9uw8y4jPLNawyAktPUbJusQtU-AJN6eyLd8j8&smid=url-share
Federal prosecutors overseeing the investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s handling of classified documents have issued a subpoena for information about Mr. Trump’s business dealings in foreign countries since he took office, according to two people familiar with the matter.....
The subpoena — drafted by the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith — sought details on the Trump Organization’s real estate licensing and development dealings in seven countries: China, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, according to the people familiar with the matter. The subpoena sought the records for deals reached since 2017, when Mr. Trump was sworn in as president.....
This month, Mr. Trump said something similar during a televised town hall event on CNN, declaring that he knowingly took government records from the White House when he left. He further claimed that he was allowed to do so because he considered the documents to be his personal property.
“I took the documents; I’m allowed to,” Mr. Trump said during the town hall, asserting at one point that he had “the absolute right” to take control of government records under the Presidential Records Act. That law, enacted in 1978 after the Watergate scandal, gave control of presidential records to the government itself — not to individual presidents......
While establishing a motive for why Mr. Trump kept hold of certain documents could be helpful to Mr. Smith, it would not necessarily be required in proving that Mr. Trump willfully maintained possession of national defense secrets or that he obstructed the government’s repeated efforts to get the materials back. Those two potential crimes have long been at the heart of the government’s documents investigation.
The subpoena — drafted by the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith — sought details on the Trump Organization’s real estate licensing and development dealings in seven countries: China, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, according to the people familiar with the matter. The subpoena sought the records for deals reached since 2017, when Mr. Trump was sworn in as president.....
This month, Mr. Trump said something similar during a televised town hall event on CNN, declaring that he knowingly took government records from the White House when he left. He further claimed that he was allowed to do so because he considered the documents to be his personal property.
“I took the documents; I’m allowed to,” Mr. Trump said during the town hall, asserting at one point that he had “the absolute right” to take control of government records under the Presidential Records Act. That law, enacted in 1978 after the Watergate scandal, gave control of presidential records to the government itself — not to individual presidents......
While establishing a motive for why Mr. Trump kept hold of certain documents could be helpful to Mr. Smith, it would not necessarily be required in proving that Mr. Trump willfully maintained possession of national defense secrets or that he obstructed the government’s repeated efforts to get the materials back. Those two potential crimes have long been at the heart of the government’s documents investigation.
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