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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5383991" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;The only viable defense Trump has is to point the finger at someone else — to claim that he is a hands-off administrator who took the word of his aides that none of the documents at Mar-a-Lago belonged in the government’s hands. But while two of the statutes at issue require the government to prove that the defendant intended to break the law, the DOJ’s repeated requests and demands to Trump — including a grand jury subpoena — <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/14/trump-classified-documents-doj-opinion-00051584" target="_blank">will make it hard for him to argue</a> that he did not realize that the records contained national security secrets that belonged to the federal government.Trump’s defense would have to be that he did not read any of the communications from the government and was told by his attorneys that their meeting and communications with the DOJ indicated that he was in the clear. He would have to claim that the attorneys lied to him and that he never directed one of the attorneys, Christina Bobb, to sign an apparently false statement to DOJ that all of the materials “marked classified” had been returned to the government.&quot;Politico</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5383991, member: 54375"] "The only viable defense Trump has is to point the finger at someone else — to claim that he is a hands-off administrator who took the word of his aides that none of the documents at Mar-a-Lago belonged in the government’s hands. But while two of the statutes at issue require the government to prove that the defendant intended to break the law, the DOJ’s repeated requests and demands to Trump — including a grand jury subpoena — [URL='https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/14/trump-classified-documents-doj-opinion-00051584']will make it hard for him to argue[/URL] that he did not realize that the records contained national security secrets that belonged to the federal government. Trump’s defense would have to be that he did not read any of the communications from the government and was told by his attorneys that their meeting and communications with the DOJ indicated that he was in the clear. He would have to claim that the attorneys lied to him and that he never directed one of the attorneys, Christina Bobb, to sign an apparently false statement to DOJ that all of the materials “marked classified” had been returned to the government." Politico [/QUOTE]

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