#Trump workers moved #MarALago boxes a day before #DOJ came for #ClassifiedDocuments
Trump & his aides also allegedly carried out a “#DressRehearsal” for moving sensitive papers even BEFORE his office received the May 2022 #subpoena
#Obstruction #Intent #NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/25/trump-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/
Prosecutors…gathered evidence that even before #Trump’s office received the #subpoena in May, he had…a “dress rehearsal” for moving gov docs that he did not want to relinquish….
The term #DressRehearsal was used in a sealed judicial opinion issued earlier this yr in one of several legal battles over the govt’s access to particular #witnesses & #evidence…. It was used to describe an episode when #Trump allegedly reviewed the contents of some… of the boxes containing #classified material.…
At the time, #Trump & his legal team were engaged in a back-&-forth w/ #NARA over whether he had taken…(gov) records & property….That dispute over #presidentialRecords is what ultimately led to the discovery of #ClassifiedDocuments at #MarALago — some of them highly sensitive, incl’g info about a #foreign country’s #nuclear capabilities; #Iran’s #missile system;& #intelligence gathering aimed at #China.
TFG… told aides he wanted to make sure he could keep papers that he considered his property.