The former president’s compulsive confession only helps the prosecutors.
, “One of former president Donald Trump’s long-time assistants told federal investigators that Trump repeatedly wrote to-do lists for her on documents from the White House that were marked classified, according to sources familiar with her statements.
Worse still: “After Trump heard the FBI wanted to interview Michael last year, Trump allegedly told her, ‘You don’t know anything about the boxes.’” It sureAs Trump continued to claim that there were no more boxes, Michael even pointed out to him that many people, including maintenance workers, knew otherwise because they had all seen that there were many more than 15 boxes, sources said she told investigators.
Smith's indictment against Trump alleges that Trump asked one of his attorneys at the time,"Wouldn't it be better if we just told them we don't have anything here?" Speaking later with investigators, Michael said she believed early on that claims of no more boxes from Trump were “easily” disproven, and she believed Trump knew they were false because he knew the contents of those boxes better than anyone else — and because he had previously seen a photograph of the storage room with all 90 or so boxes in it, ABC News was told.
Let’s count the ways in which this might be damaging. First and foremost, it can negate the notion that Trump didn’t know what was in the boxes. Second, that he was worried and allegedly encouraged Michael to lie indicates that he did not believe hehad a right to the documents or that he had declassified them. If Michael is credible and supported by other witnesses, Trump’s “to-do” list and his conversations will be powerful evidence in the documents case.
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