Trump misled his attorneys on classified documents: Report

Former President Donald Trump was allegedly deceptive to his own lawyers on his retention of classified documents after leaving office, according to sources cited by ABC News, claiming that U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote on the matter before she stepped down as the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s chief judge Friday. Howell reportedly wrote that prosecutors had provided enough preliminary evidence to confirm that Trump had knowingly and deliberately deceived his attorneys about his retention of classified documents, causing his legal team to deceive the government inadvertently. Trump denies the allegations.

In the sealed filing, Howell wrote that prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith’s office made a “prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations.” As a result, two of Trump’s attorney-client privileges could be disregarded. She also allegedly ordered Evan Corcoran, one of Trump’s attorneys, to comply with a grand jury subpoena over previous questions that he had rejected by way of attorney-client privilege. Corcoran was also ordered to hand over handwritten notes, invoices, and transcriptions of personal audio recordings linked to what prosecutors called Trump’s “criminal scheme.”

Trump’s campaign has denied the report altogether, telling ABC News that the allegations are false. According to the spokesperson, “The real story here, that Fake News ABC SHOULD be reporting on, is that prosecutors only attack lawyers when they have no case whatsoever. Shame on Fake News ABC for broadcasting ILLEGALLY LEAKED false allegations from a Never Trump, now former chief judge, against the Trump legal team.”

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