A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ordered an attorney for former President Donald Trump to comply with a federal grand jury subpoena to testify and provide records relevant to the probe into the potential mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Smith’s reported findings were referenced in the sealed filing penned Friday by a former top federal judge, the sources said. U.S. Judge Beryl Howell, who stepped down as the D.C. district court’s chief judge on the same day, reportedly wrote that Smith’s prosecutors had made a “prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations.”
Smith made the request despite Corcoran’s attorney-client privileges—which are sometimes pierced under certain cases of crime or fraud. On Friday, Howell ruled in favor of piercing said privileges, forcing Corcoran to appear before a federal grand jury. In her filing, Howell wrote that what Smith’s office had found was enough to render the attorney-client privilege previously invoked by two of Trump’s attorneys void but did not constitute grounds to seek charges against Trump.
A Trump campaign statement blasted the situation, claiming “prosecutors only attack lawyers when they have no case whatsoever… These leaks are happening because there is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against President Trump.”reported, however, that the order made it “clear” that the documents are at the center of the case “and the extraordinary light-speed with which the appeals court is moving suggests there will be action on this at the federal courthouse *tomorrow.
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