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Recent widow from Hubby of 31yrs. Cyber schooling HS twin girls. Curriculum/Fictional writings.Genealogy Chronic pain sufferer.Trying to keep family alive/sane.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

62/ I want to be clear in saying we’ve no evidence of this yet. What’s happening is that the facts of the case appear to offer *preliminary* and *circumstantial* evidence that some docs *may* not have been turned over and *may* have passed through Trump’s hands. (A lot of mays.)

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

61/ There’s also a whisper on CNN, coming from Andrew Weissmann, that DOJ *may* still believe there are stolen classified documents unaccounted for—whether in the current possession of Donald Trump *or* (even worse, somehow) out of his possession because he passed them to others.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

60/ Even if one believes Biden willfully retained defense documents—which there’s zero evidence of—Trump is also charged with Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice and Making False Statements, conduct that no one has ever shown *any* evidence of Biden committing.

Bad start for the GOP.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

58/ (Fun fact: I’m writing all this while dealing with a bad case of Poison Ivy on my primary arm that I got from my dog. I’m itchier than I can possibly express, argh! How can a fur baby I love so much cause so much anguish? 😁 I think it may have spread to my other arm, too...)

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

59/ BREAKING NEWS (CNN, live on-air): Kevin McCarthy has released a disgusting statement that falsely accuses President Biden of indicting Trump rather than a grand jury made up of average Floridians. McCarthy also claims Biden did the same thing as Trump, which is a vicious lie.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

56/ Weird that Trump attorney Jim Trusty says, “He [Trump] is not going to hide in Scotland,” as though that was... I don’t know, discussed? On the table? Something that could happen at a future date, if things get bad? The specificity of this statement by Trusty is... unnerving?

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

57/ Trusty forecasts that a) Trump will seek to move the case from Miami-Dade to Palm Beach County, and b) he has not seen evidence yet that DOJ is going to bring a documents case in Washington, D.C. as well as in Florida. He expects a fight on bail conditions and case timeframe.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

55/ Jim Trusty is on CNN making all sorts of allegations about DOJ without any proof whatsoever that I’m not going to repeat here because (a) there is no proof whatsoever for any of them, and (b) if years and years and years of history are precedent, all of it is abject nonsense.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

54/ MAJOR BREAKING NEWS (CNN, on-air): Trump Attorney Jim Trusty Confirms the Seven Federal Criminal Charges Against Trump Fall into Three Categories: Espionage Act (Willful Retention of Defense Documents), Conspiracy (to commit Obstruction of Justice) and Making False Statements

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

53/ MAJOR BREAKING NEWS (CNN, on-air): Trump Attorney Jim Trusty Confirms Trump Is Being Charged Under the Espionage Act

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

52/ Today Trump can pretend he faces only a case in Florida and try to pick it to death via lies and rhetoric.

But that’s not his situation.

His situation, and I say this as a longtime criminal defense attorney, is that he is—excuse my legalistic language—well and truly f*cked.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

51/ Trump enters the primaries beset on so many sides by ongoing criminal and civil cases—including a MASSIVE suit against the Trump Org so big that Ivanka Trump decided to separate herself from her family and get her own lawyer—that we’ve never seen anything *remotely* like it.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

50/ Trump is also likely to be *re-sued* for Sexual Abuse and Defamation in New York—a MASSIVE civil case—because after Trump was found to have sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll he literally *repeated* all of the words that had led to the suit *and* his huge loss in it.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

49/ But I keep saying this and will keep saying it: we mustn’t think about the charges against Trump as localized. Trump has a MASSIVE case in New York; a MASSIVE case in Florida; and will soon have a MASSIVE case in Georgia. He’ll likely to end up with a MASSIVE case in DC, too.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

48/ The False Statements charge is the one most written about already, and relates to lies told by Trump and his lawyers to the FBI as the FBI tried to determine what documents Trump had, where they were, and so on. Like the other charges we know of, the case on this is *strong*.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

47/ In a Willful Retention case (I’m paraphrasing the statutory title), it doesn’t matter if the items are *classified*—a second instance of DOJ sidestepping potential problems (the classification issue)—but simply if they’re wrongly held and meet the statutory content standards.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

46/ In a Conspiracy case, what is required is a "meeting of the minds" to act in furtherance of a criminal ambition.

Each member of the conspiracy is deemed a member if he or she takes a "discrete" step "in furtherance of the conspiracy" and understood that its aim was criminal.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

45/ Let’s return to the 3 charges we know of. The Conspiracy charge tells us that Trump allegedly conspired with other people, which means—in my experience researching and writing on Trump—that the odds of Trump having attempted to tamper with these co-conspirators approach 100%.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

44/ Some of you know that PROOF published a book in the NYT-bestselling Proof series that offers significant discussion of the Mar-a-Lago case.

If you’re interested, you can access it—and all of PROOF—at the link below for $5/month (cancel anytime).

🔗: https://t.co/AaPGLygJ0n

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

43/ Making the rounds of major media now. Here is what the NEW YORK TIMES has on this unfolding story (it is a series of time-stamped updates): https://t.co/QJUV0W43E7