In an op-ed published Wednesday by National Reviewconservative commentator Andrew McCarthy argues that former President Donald Trump faces “the very serious possibility of being charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements to the government.”
McCarthy cites a portion of the recently released affidavit justifying the FBI’s search for documents at Mar-a-Lago. The document says: “there is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the FACILITIES.”
The text gives the most detailed account yet of the FBI’s motivation for entering Trump’s property at Mar-a-Lago, prompted by a review of records Trump previously turned over to authorities containing top-secret information.
According to McCarthy, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the Justice Department has a much stronger obstruction case against Trump than for his alleged mishandling of classified information.
Legal experts say Trump’s lawyers may need their own lawyers after the Department’s damning filing.
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“If there is convincing evidence of attempts to hide or destroy government records, especially highly classified ones, that could change the equation. The Justice Department generally takes any witness or evidence tampering very seriously,” McCarthy writes.
“I am not saying that the former president is guilty of such behavior, and again, we do not know what the government presented in court in this regard. But it may well be possible for the Justice Department to prosecute an obstruction case without having to expose classified intelligence and the identities of at least most of its informants.”
McCarthy further says that he has seen enough evidence to think that Trump “is likely to be impeached.” “Try [los posibles cargos contra Trump] it does not involve navigating the same complications that would arise when trying to prove classified information crimes,” he writes.
Trump, who is weighing another White House bid in 2024, accused the Justice Department of conducting a “witch hunt” and said the judge “should never have allowed the search of my house.”
