Trump Facing Grand Jury Investigation For Taking Classified Documents To Mar A Lago

The Department of Justice has officially convened a grand jury to look into whether or not Donald Trump broke the law by taking classified documents from the White House and stashing them at Mar-a-Lago after he left office. At the very least, this gives us hope that the DOJ might not be as pathetic as we all think, and it shows that they might actually be willing to go after Trump. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

I have been exceptionally hard on attorney general Merrick Garland, and I make no apologies for that, even though some people have requested that I apologize for that, not gonna do it, but I do believe in giving credit where credit is due. And right now merit Garland actually deserves a little bit of credit because as it turns out, the department of justice has in fact, lined up a prosecutor and convened a grand jury to investigate Donald Trump taking classified documents from his white house and stashing them down in Malago right. The forgotten scandal that blew up at the end of January of this year, when it was finally revealed, then later on, it was revealed that some of the documents were in fact marked classified. That was only revealed after he gave them back following requests from the January 6th committee and victories and lawsuits that actually allowed them to do that.

Um, and then everybody kind of forgot about it, but the DOJ did not. And I have to give them a ton of credit for continuing on with this. And of course, in paneling a grand jury to look into it. So in case you're not familiar, let's rehash the scandal real quick here. Uh, Donald Trump, when he left the white house, took 15 boxes of documents, gifts, letters, other things from the white house, stashed 'em down in a closet in Malago. And part of the thing that the grand jury is going to have to determine is whether or not whoever packed these up and sent them down there. And of course has to look at how they were stored and where they were stored. Um, they have to make sure that the intent was there, that everybody knew this was against the law, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that they knew that at least in my estimation, based on the available evidence we've seen over the last few months, I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't know that it was against the law, because some of the reports that have come out about these boxes when they were at Margo, was that everybody knew they were in this closet and everybody knew they weren't allowed to touch them.

They were in Donald Trump's residency at Margo. Okay. They weren't just stuffed in a supply shed. They weren't tucked up in the attic attic. They were in a closet in his residence in Margo. And everybody that worked there knew you weren't allowed to touch them. So they knew something was up, right? They knew there was something special about these boxes. Now, whether or not that proves intent, it doesn't necessarily, but it's definitely a good place to start for this grand jury, because if you don't have the intent, unfortunately in this particular instance, obviously you don't have the crime, which honestly, I find that to be a little ridiculous as well, right? Intent or not, this was still illegal. It's like, if you get caught speeding, because you didn't see the,

The speed limit sign had dropped, you still get a ticket for speeding. Even if you didn't know, the speed limit was lower than what you thought it was, you still broke the law. You still get the ticket. So I don't see why intent matters so much here. You know, to me, that's just one of the weirdest things about all of this, but either way, I still think you can prove intent. They may have had a low level staffer, be the one to, you know, pack these up. He may, or she may not have known what they were doing and that it was illegal. But somebody along that chain of command knew it.