Opinion TЯump's smoking gun recording gives Jack Smith all he needs -- By Jennifer Rubin

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/04/trump-smoking-gun-tape/

Apologies if this is a duplicate post, but it seems timely, in light of Traitor-45's morning freak-out (the 1850 boxes one)
https://democraticunderground.com/100217971442
"Clearly, his lawyers did not get good news at the DOJ today"

This evidence effectively destroys whatever defense Trump was trying to concoct (he didn’t know there were classified documents, he declassified them, he thought they were not classified). Trump holds the presumption of innocence and has not been indicted. However, the last time such a damning piece of evidence (a “smoking gun”) came to light, Richard M. Nixon’s presidency was effectively over. (He left office less than a week later.)

News reports now indicate the federal grand jury hearing the documents case will meet this week. An indictment, if there is one, could come within days.

Trump’s own words could provide damning evidence of a willful violation of the Espionage Act and of obstruction — and help fix venue in D.C., where the Justice Department almost certainly wants to try the case. Andrew Weissmann, the former lead prosecutor for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, summed up the take of many career prosecutors: “I’m trying not to use hyperbole, but this is game over. ... If this story is accurate, there will be an indictment, and it’s hard to see how there will not be a conviction.” (A complete analysis from nine former prosecutors on the strength of the the special counsel’s case — even before the tape recording was reported — can be found at Just Security.)

When coupled with reports that a Trump lawyer was “waved off” searching the former president’s office, a damning case of wrongful retention of highly sensitive (and likely classified documents) appears to have come together. Trump seems to have confessed that he knew the classification rules, didn’t declassify documents before leaving office and knew that retaining them was illegal.

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Are we there yet?

[RAB910]

1. Judging by Trump's unhinged rants today

It sounds like we are almost there

[Talitha]

2. Everything trump touches dies - -

And now it's his turn!!!