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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump was accused of destroying email evidence in lawsuit 10 years ago
In 2006, when a judge ordered Donald Trump's casino operation to hand over several years' worth of emails, the answer surprised him: The Trump Organization routinely erased emails and had no records from 1996 to 2001. The defendants in a case that Trump brought said this amounted to destruction of evidence, a charge never resolved.
At that time, a Trump IT director testified that until 2001, executives in Trump Tower relied on personal email accounts using dial-up Internet services, despite the fact that Trump had launched a high-speed Internet provider in 1998 and announced he would wire his whole building with it. Another said Trump had no routine process for preserving emails before 2005.
Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld was stunned. He has a house up in Palm Beach County listed for $125 million, but he doesnt keep emails. Thats a tough one, he said, according to transcripts obtained by USA TODAY. If somebody starts to put forth as a fact something that doesnt make any sense to me and causes me to have a concern about their credibility in the discovery process, that's not a good direction to go, and I am really having a hard time with this.
Now, a decade later, Trump regularly hammers Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, for using her own email server while she was secretary of State and deleting emails from that server that she deemed to be private. In a war of tweets with Clinton a week ago, Trump wrote, And where are your 33,000 emails that you deleted? On the CBS News program Face the Nationearlier this month, Trump said, "What she did is a criminal situation. She wasn't supposed to do that with the server and the emails."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/13/trump-accused-destroying-email-evidence-lawsuit-10-years-ago-republican-hillary-president/85795082/
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Trump was accused of destroying email evidence in lawsuit 10 years ago (Original Post)
spanone
Jun 2016
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Wilms
(26,795 posts)1. It's awesome to see how much they have in common.
Abouttime
(675 posts)2. Trump will be charged with a crime before the election
Trump will be charged under the RICO Act because of the consumer fraud at the heart of Trump university.