Lawyers for Donald Trump’s second co-defendant in the criminal case involving his retention of classified documents has asked a federal judge to throw out the parts of the indictment charging him with conspiring to obstruct justice and making false statements to the FBI. Carlos De Oliveira, who worked as the maintenance chief at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago […]
Special counsel prosecutors have produced to Donald Trump a sealed exhibit about threats to a potential trial witness after the federal judge overseeing his prosecution for retaining classified documents ordered the exhibit turned over despite the prosecutors’ objections, a person familiar with the matter said. The exhibit was a point of contention because it detailed […]
WASHINGTON — The special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump has asked the judge in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case to reconsider an order the government argues could identify more than two dozen witnesses and threaten their safety and testimony. Trump’s lawyers have asked for unredacted documents to be turned over, which lawyers for special counsel Jack […]
The claim: Navy SEALs killed an intruder at Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 27 A Jan. 29 article by Real Raw News claims a fatal incident occurred at former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Jan. 27. “White Hats Kill Mar-a-Lago Intruder,” reads the article’s headline. The article describes a purported incident in which two intruders scaled […]
A potential government witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has received online threats that are now under federal investigation, special counsel Jack Smith said in a new court filing. Smith requested permission from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to file an exhibit under seal until the federal probe is […]
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump said in a filing Tuesday night that they plan to file multiple motions to get the criminal charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against the former president dismissed. “Defendants currently plan to file on February 22, at minimum, a series of motions to dismiss the Superseding […]
Special counsel Jack Smith shredded Donald Trump‘s effort to have prosecutors share information that his defense believes relevant to the former president’s classified documents case in a scathing court filing Friday. In the 67-page motion, federal prosecutors argued that Trump’s legal team offered an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” and attempted to “cast a cloud of […]
Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who most recently represented E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump, recounted in a podcast interview released Friday that the former president got angry during a deposition after he learned that his lawyers agreed to provide her lunch and in a separate moment invoked a vulgar term. Kaplan recalled her interaction with Trump […]
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has questioned several witnesses about a “hidden room” and a closet that the FBI did not check while searching former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022, sources told ABC News. Some investigators after the search came to believe that the closet, which was locked during the search, should have […]
Attorney Roberta Kaplan said former President Donald Trump threw papers across a table and stormed off during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after learning that his legal team had agreed to provide her lunch. Kaplan, who has represented clients in high-profile cases against Trump, including E. Jean Carroll, said on an episode of the “George Conway Explains […]
A new report alleges that special counsel Jack Smith’s team of investigators questioned witnesses in the classified documents investigation about a “hidden room” and a locked closet at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and country club that they did not search in their 2022 raid of the property. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis […]
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has questioned several witnesses about a closet and a so-called “hidden room” inside former President Donald Trump‘s residence at Mar-a-Lago that the FBI didn’t check while searching the estate in August 2022, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. As described to ABC News, the line of questioning in […]