As we’ve been pointing out, ever since it was revealed early this year that President Biden is a serial illegal hoarder of classified documents, the Mar-a-Lago investigation has been reframed by the media-Democrat complex into a case of obstruction. Last August, after his estate was searched, the coverage theme was that former president Trump must be imprisoned for his indefensible recklessness in illegally hoarding classified documents. Now, document retention is an afterthought.
If you needed any more proof, there is, as ever, the New York Times.
In yesterday’s dispatch, co-authored by four of the paper’s top reporters, the Times explains that the recent legal wrangling over the case (involving, among other things, a court order — which has been upheld on appeal — granting the special counsel’s effort to force a Trump lawyer to testify and surrender documents) “has brought into sharper view where the Justice Department might be headed with the case.”
And where’s that?
According to the wisps of information that have seeped out of sealed court filings and closed-door hearings, prosecutors believe they have compelling evidence that Mr. Trump obstructed the government’s efforts to reclaim the sensitive records and may have even misled his own lawyers.
Well, who’d have thought!
The report elaborates that, in her aforementioned order, Judge Beryl Howell of the federal district court in Washington, D.C.,
laid out damning assertions made by prosecutors that Mr. Trump knowingly deceived the government and caused Mr. Corcoran to misstate to prosecutors where the documents were being held at Mar-a-Lago.
The Times adds:
The accumulation of details emerging from the proceedings suggests that Mr. Smith and his team are drilling down on every scrap of evidence they can find in assembling an argument that Mr. Trump may have impeded a federal investigation. For their part, some of Mr. Trump’s aides have stated plainly if privately that the government — and, in their minds, Judge Howell — see him as “a criminal.”
All this has taken place in spite of predictions from Mr. Trump’s allies that the documents investigation would quietly blow away after President Biden was also found to have kept classified materials after his term as vice president.
The documents investigation hasn’t blown away. It’s just been redesigned.