Federal judge found 'strong evidence' of crimes before Trump was charged in classified documents case

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47% : Among the topics Howell ordered Corcoran to testify about was a June 24, 2022, phone call he had with Trump - the same day investigators subpoenaed surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago.
40% : Federal judge found 'strong evidence' of crimes before Trump was charged in classified documents caseTierney
37% : Trump "deliberately curtailed his staff's efforts to comply" with the National Archives' initial efforts to retrieve the documents, she wrote.
34% : "The former president's misdirection of NARA was apparently a dress rehearsal for his actions in response to the May 11, 2022 subpoena," Howell said.Twenty-one of the 32 national security documents Trump is accused of criminally mishandling were in the former president's possession August 8, 2022, the date of the Mar-a-Lago FBI search.
33% : The case against Trump, brought last summer, is currently in front of Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce, Florida.
29% : In the criminal case filed last year, prosecutors say there was conspiracy led by Trump to move boxes of government records from the storage room before Corcoran searched for it for classified materials.
29% : That means that Trump's team in this newly available motion to suppress is seeking to cut out from the case those 21 documents-and thus their related charges-and the hundreds of other classified records around them, plus the part of the case accusing Trump of obstruction of justice that is built around Corcoran.
25% : SneedMay 22, 2024 at 1:25 AMMonths before Donald Trump was indicted for mishandling classified documents, a federal judge said that investigators had "strong evidence" that the former president "intended" to hide classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, according to newly released court documents.
21% : The ruling was among hundreds of pages of previously sealed filings that were publicly docketed Tuesday in the criminal classified documents case against Trump.
19% : Judge said that Trump used his attorney as a 'front man' to obstruct probeTrump's defense team is seeking to throw out parts of the prosecutors' case - including all the evidence seized from Mar-a-Lago and obtained from his former attorney Evan Corcoran, according to the filings in federal court in South Florida.

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