Mar-a-Lago judge unseals batch of documents that shed light on Trump's wild judgeship bribery claim
Source: Law & Crime
Apr 23rd, 2024, 1:54 pm
Following a Monday unsealing order by the judge in the Mar-a-Lago case, a series of documents shed light on the origins of Donald Trump’s claims that a top prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smith’s staff offered a “JUDGESHIP” to a lawyer representing his valet co-defendant during an August 2022 meeting.
More than anything else, the documents reveal that Trump’s judgeship offer allegation against Jay Bratt, the Justice Department’s chief for Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the National Security Division who joined Smith’s team, bears little resemblance to what was actually being argued in court filings on “allegations of potential misconduct” that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has unsealed.
On June 8, 2023, the Guardian reported that Stanley Woodward, then a new attorney for Trump valet Walt Nauta, was taken aback that Bratt mentioned Woodward’s pending judicial application to the D.C. Superior Court in almost the same breath as he urged Nauta to cooperate with the government in the face of criminal exposure. The report said the meeting happened around November of 2022, but documents said the meeting took place on Aug. 24, 2022.
As it turns out, one unsealed filing shows, on June 5, 2023 — just three days before the Guardian report, which dropped on the eve of the Mar-a-Lago indictment’s unsealing — Trump was secretly litigating in D.C. to get his hands on grand jury transcripts of witness interviews, including Nauta’s and that of Mar-a-Lago property manager and co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira.
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Does anyone on DU have any doubts about the corruption and corruptibility of Chump and everyone in his circle?
This happened in 2022 when Chump was no longer president, and had little chance of ever becoming president again. But that doesn't stop him from corrupting anyone he comes in contact with.
This demonstrates that Nauta and De Oliviera made a mistake by agreeing to be defended by Chump's lawyers. They should have gotten their own lawyers who hopefully would have advised them to take a plea deal as soon as possible. Instead these poor saps will be used by Chump and will spend many years in prison.
