Trump lawyer [Evan Corcoran] CONFESSES and throws Trump Under the Bus
by Michael Popok
MeidasTouch
May 30, 2023
Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on breaking developments in the Jack Smith Mar a Lago criminal investigation with former Trump attorney Evan Corcoran confessing that he was mislead as to the location of all the national security and classified documents by both Trump himself and Trump’s associates while searching Mar a Lago to comply with the DOJ subpoena, as the prosecutors continue to squeeze Trump’s personal assistant Walt Nauta to flip.
Transcript
this is Michael popock legal AF. we
got some breaking news coming out of the
guardian and their investigative
reporting about Mar-A-Lago as Jack Smith
reaches his final recommendations to
indict Donald Trump related to the uh
stolen and mishandled National Security
information top secret classified
documents at Mar-A-Lago what's the new
information that's what this hot take is
about Evan Corcoran has told the grand
jury and prosecutors according to at
least two sources and told his own
Associates that he was misled about the
location of documents classified
National Security matters materials at
Mar-A-Lago by those closest to Donald
Trump himself and that Donald Trump
never told Evan Corcoran or disabused
them of the notion that the only
location for those documents was just in
one storage room when there was another
hundred that were sitting just inside of
Donald Trump's office and desk but Evan
Corcoran never searched those areas he
was he was told not to search those
areas he was told that all the
information all of the of the retained
improperly retained documents from the
White House were sitting in one location
but that was a lie so now you have the
the Department of Justice trying to get
to the bottom of why were there boxes
being moved by Walt nauta Donald Trump's
personal valet after the subpoena was
issued and while they were responding to
it this is even before the search
warrant The subpoena which is a demand
under under penalties of of perjury and
contempt review failed to respond is
issued by lawyers under the auspices of
a federal judge and requires that
documents be turned over over pursue it
to that subpoena if not then there's a
court process for contempt if that
doesn't work you go in and you get a
search warrant which is what they did so
you've got a June subpoena and an August
search warrant against Donald Trump why
the Department of Justice wants to know
why did Donald Trump give the
instructions for Walt now to move boxes
in and out of the storage room that same
room that they directed Evan Corcoran to
look to look for documents it was the
only place they spoon-fed misled Evan
Corcoran the lawyer for Donald Trump and
said just look in the storage room
that's where all the documents are don't
go into Daddy's office don't go into
Daddy's desk drawer there's nothing for
you to see there and Evan Corcoran said
okay
but Evan corcoran's problem is he signed
along with Christina Bob a certificate
under penalty of perjury that they
conducted a diligent search and that
they only found 38
documents top secret classified National
Security documents and they put it in a
sealed envelope and gave it to the
Department of Justice the Department of
Justice already knew from other
witnesses that that was false that there
were documents in other rooms at
Mar-A-Lago specifically the office and
desk so they caught Evan Corcoran in in
a trap now Evan corcoran's defense is
that's what I was told by my client
that's what I was told by Donald Trump I
was told that the only place to look I
needed to look was the storage room and
that's the only place I looked and I
needed Walt now to open the doors
because he had the keys and when Walt
now to ask to sit in while I did my
review I said no but that's the only
place that I searched so that's the new
testimony we know now from Evan Corcoran
why do we know about it now
why haven't we heard about this before
because let's be frank the Department of
Justice is doing strategic leaking of
this information to put pressure on
people like Walt nauta who as of right
now have not fully cooperated with the
Department of Justice
in fact Walton out his lawyers have been
told by the Department of Justice and
and the special counsel prosecutors that
their client is in deep deep
that their client has not been truthful
and accurate in giving his information
to the Department of Justice which is a
potential crime and they want Walt now
to to play ball against Donald Trump and
as of yet they haven't so you see these
strategic leaks that I can report on in
this particular hot take that's where we
are as of right now
we know that Evan Corcoran is throwing
Donald Trump under the bus and saying I
was misled I was sent into the into the
storage room that's where I told
document I was told documents were and I
didn't search anywhere else
and how do we know all this from Evan
Corcoran because he turned over 50 pages
of attorney notes that he took in
conversation with his client Donald
Trump Donald Trump's aides Walt nouda
and others and he had to turn it over to
the Department of Justice because he was
ordered to
but when the Department of Justice
sought to uh have him drop the
attorney-client privilege the most
sacrosanct privilege between a lawyer
and a client got ripped away from Donald
Trump who holds the privilege and his
lawyer Evan Corcoran because judge Beryl
Howell the then chief judge of the D.C
Circuit Court who oversees all grand
juries she ruled that there was likely a
crime or fraud being perpetrated by
Donald Trump
and therefore under the crime fraud
exception of the attorney-client
privilege she stripped the
attorney-client privilege away from
Donald Trump made Evan Corcoran testify
without it about every deepest darkest
conversation he had with his client had
to be revealed to the
um Grand Jury about Mar-A-Lago and the
handling of those documents and his own
documents his case his file his client
file how to be turned over
and now we know how big of a problem it
is and what the focus of the Department
of Justice is they have video
surveillance uh cameras from the Trump
organization out in front of the doors
of the storage room and they saw two
things well they saw one thing and one
thing they didn't see
they saw Walt Nauta the day before right
after the subpoena was issued
moving boxes in and out of the storage
room and they don't know exactly where
the boxes that were taken out went next
is that bet Minster
because we have a maintenance worker who
testified already and has cooperated
with the Department of Justice that he
helped Walt now to load an SUV to drive
to Bedminster from Mar-A-Lago
for those that are not from this country
or don't know geography that is a
18-hour drive from Mar-A-Lago to
Bedminster New Jersey
filled with boxes Department of Justice
wants to get to the bottom of it will we
see a subpoena and or search warrant for
Bedminster Golf Course
I predict we will but they're trying the
Department of Justice to get Walt nouda
right to flip
he has it as of yet
these strategic media placements of this
news like today will help them with that
Evan Corcoran and his testimony that he
got misled by Donald Trump and that
Donald Trump never told him to go look
where he knew that the boxes were in his
office that's a problem that's called
Criminal Intent for Donald Trump as they
try to come up with the motive for why
this this ex-president held on to these
documents and wouldn't let him be pulled
out of his dead cold fingers
why and of course now we know the
Department of Justice is also searching
through records and subpoenas about
foreign relations between Donald Trump
and foreign powers
because they found boxes and and uh
documents related to those foreign
powers in the office in the desk during
the search warrant that's the connected
links there the new reporting today will
continue to follow Evan Corcoran saying
I was misled by my own client Walt nauta
talking about uh moving of documents and
having him cooperate the video camera as
I said before they saw Walt nauta what
they didn't see is there are gaps in the
video this is like the Nixon you know 18
minutes of missing audio during
Watergate where it where are the video
where's the video for critical moments
they've already the Department of
Justice have subpoenaed and interviewed
um uh Matt calamari and Matt calamari Jr
the two heads of security for the Trump
organization they're cooperating
and they've subpoenaed the company the
video surveillance company that that
manages those video cameras where why
are why are there gaps
and the Department of Justice is trying
to get to the bottom of it
as they tie all this together in time
to go make their recommendation in a
report to Merrick Garland the Attorney
General
who will then after the full
presentation of the material right
one of the most uh important historical
PowerPoint presentations in American
history is coming up
with with uh Jack Smith his team of
prosecutors and Merrick Garland on at
least Mar-A-Lago if not the three or
four other grand juries that are looking
at other Trump criminality
and then from there back to the grand
jury to seek the indictment
which will initially be sealed and then
unsealed for the American public
there that's where we're at for those
that are scratching their head and
rubbing their eyes like can they believe
it justice is finally going to be done
Justice is finally going to be done
people that didn't think Donald Trump
would ever been indicted would ever be
indicted or convicted his entities got
convicted 17 times in New York for tax
fraud he's been indicted
now we're talking about the federal
indictments likely by Jack Smith and his
team that have been working around the
clock for the last eight months
and then of course funny Willis in
Georgia
the prosecutor who has already declared
that she's going to be seeking an
indictment of people
read those read that as Donald Trump and
others at the end of July the beginning
of August
this is the summer of accountability
right last year was the was the year of
Investigation this year is the year of
indictment and trial setting
and 2023 and 2024 are the trials
yes it's going to coincide with the U.S
election
but so what
he'll have to run Donald Trump will have
to run
for office as the leading as he likes to
say the leading candidate for the
Republican nomination or for the whole
presidency as a twice impeached multiply
indicted potentially convicted
a judged sex abuser
candidate and if that is okay with the
majority of the Republicans that vote
so be it he will go down in flames and
lose horribly to the president of the
United States Joe Biden
that's the reporting for today I'll
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Mar-A-Lago Walt Nauta connections on hot
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