emptywheel: Found! Dozens of Damning Documents about Trump's Hoarding of Classified Documents! [View all]
Found! Dozens of Damning Documents about Trumps Hoarding of Classified Documents!
By emptywheel
January 19, 2025
In an interview with Marc Elias the other day, Dan Goldman made a number of alarming claims. He said that before the release of Jack Smiths January 6 report, we didnt really know about
the extensive litigation that the Special Counsel had to go through just to get this evidence. That is, Goldman admitted that he missed the unsealing, in October, of the very documents Jack Smith cited to describe that process (which I wrote about at the time). Goldman missed the opportunity to make a stink about this before the election.
Goldman also wondered if Elon Musk and X, while he has owned it, has ever not cooperated in the same way [as they did in response to a warrant for Trumps Twitter account] in a different case. We know the answer to that: according to an opinion Chief Judge Boasberg unsealed (and first spotted by Kyle Cheney, who played a key role in liberating the Executive Privilege dispute), from January to March of last year, Xitter refused to turn over mere subscriber records in what sounds like a leak investigation.
Much later in the interview (after 19:00), Goldman said,
Volume Two of the report is going to provide a lot more information that we dont know. The litigation in the January 6 case, including the memo outlining all of the evidence, has been so extensive that, as we see from Volume One, there really isnt that much that we didnt know. There was also an entire Congressional Committee that did this investigation. This has been exhaustively investigated. And yes they did get more evidence because they had grand jury power. They got more witnesses to speak than the January 6 Committee did. But weve known about that.
We know very little about what the back-and-forth was with the National Archives, the FBI, Donald Trump and his team, others. And one of the things that has jumped out at me in that case is that in one of the filings, the Department of Justice, Special Counsel, said, that there evidence includes why Donald Trump retained the information illegally, and what he was planning to do with it. [my emphasis]
From there, Goldman went on to call for Merrick Garland to dismiss the case, which Im not sure Garland can do without some judge going along (which was the hold up in the Mike Flynn case).
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