Current Events > Non-president now trying to claim executive privilege

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/trump-illegal-documents-fbi-mar-a-lago

Donald Trump appeared to concede in his court filing over the seizure of materials from his Florida resort that he unlawfully retained official government documents, as the former president argued that some of the documents collected by the FBI could be subject to executive privilege.

But the argument from Trump that the documents are subject to executive privilege protections suggests those documents are official records which he is not authorized to keep and should have turned over to the National Archives at the end of the administration.

That's pretty stupid

Tldr, he admitted he has classified information, is claiming that he can use executive privilege to withhold them, except simply possessing the documents is the felony. So even if he could use executive privilege, he'd still be convicted. So he basically just confessed.

If hes acknowledging that hes in possession of documents that would have any colorable claim of executive privilege, those are by definition presidential records and belong at the National Archives, said Asha Rangappa, a former FBI agent and former associate dean at Yale Law School.

And so its not clear that executive privilege would even be relevant to the particular crime hes being investigated for and yet in this filing, he basically admits that he is in possession of them, which is what the government is trying to establish, Rangappa said.

Galaxy brain 4D chess

Trump lawyer Christina Bobb says that Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran led the review of documents held at Mar-a-Lago after Trumps team received the May 14 subpoena from DOJ. Bobb is saying she relied on Corcoran when signing that docs had been returned, that hadn't.

You know you're fucked when your lawyer wants to claim ignorance.

https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1562504233014145026?s=20&t=bpsD0eWKQsGKqT7Qx794zQ
Also ouch