Trump lawyer Christina Bobb points finger at colleague for ‘we returned all documents’ claim.
Christina Bobb, a lawyer who signed the infamous letter certifying that former President Donald Trump had returned all sensitive documents, is reportedly pointing the finger at a fellow lawyer for drafting the false claim.
Bobb told federal investigators that Evan Corcoran, a more senior member of Trump’s legal team, ordered her to sign the statement confirming the twice-impeached president had complied with a subpoena for the top-secret documents, NBC News reported Monday.
The feds say they consider Bobb a witness, not a target, of the sprawling probe into Trump’s mishandling of the documents.
“She is not going to be charged,” one source told NBC after Bobb’s grilling on Friday.
Bobb’s cooperation moves Corcoran into the legal crosshairs, where he could potentially face charges or professional legal sanctions if found guilty of telling someone to make false claims to authorities. A former lawyer for Trump said he refused a similar demand to tell National Archives and Records Administration that all the requested paperwork had been returned, according to The Washington Post.
The signed statement by Trump’s legal team claimed the former president no longer had any documents marked as classified and fully complied with a grand jury subpoena demanding their return.
The feds determined the statements were inaccurate and proceeded to obtain a search warrant for parts of Mar-a-Lago.
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FBI agents found thousands of documents in the Aug. 8 search, including more than 100 highly classified ones, in the explosive search, confirming their evidence that the letter signed by Bobb was a lie.
To date, Trump has not accepted responsibility for any misplaced paperwork, but that hasn’t stopped him from throwing former residents of the White Huse under the proverbial bus.
“[Bill Clinton] kept classified recordings in his sock. Did you know about that?” said Trump during a rally last weekend. “They say he left the White House with recordings in his sock, and they found [them] in his sock drawer.”
Clinton didn’t leave the White House with the taped recordings; they were stored in a sock drawer in the White House while in office.
Trump’s lawyers hope to benefit from a 2012 court case that decided the president is “completely entrusted with the management and even the disposal of Presidential records during his time in office.” The ruling does not address previous presidents and taking White House records.
The court ultimately decided the fate of the “sock drawer” tapes, which were not classified. The recordings contained conversations with Clinton and an author working on a book and were deemed personal property.