Looks like Donald Trump’s attorney Christina Bobb will have to flip on him now
Donald Trump’s former attorneys have had a consistent pattern of ending up needing attorneys of their own. Some of them have gone to prison. Others are current targets of criminal investigations. We’ve been wondering how long it would take until his latest crop of attorneys ended up in serious legal trouble, and now that’s happened.
Recently it was revealed that one of Trump’s current attorneys had signed a document for the Feds months ago asserting that all of the classified information at Mar-a-Lago had been returned. Now the New York Times is reporting that Trump attorney Evan Corcoran drafted that document, and Trump attorney Christina Bobb was the one who signed it. Worse for Bobb, the NYT says that she was “said to be the custodian of the documents.”
Of course the Feds went in with a search warrant after that statement was signed, and hauled out numerous boxes of additional classified documents. That means Bobb gave false information to the Feds about an ongoing criminal investigation. Oops.
We don’t know yet whether Bobb knowingly lied to the Feds, or if perhaps Trump misled her into believing that all the documents had been returned. If she lied, she’s on the hook for obstruction, and she’ll end up in prison unless she cuts a cooperating plea deal against Trump. But even if Trump tricked her into making a false statement to the Feds, that would make her a material witness against Trump – and she’d be forced to testify against him, as the crime-fraud exception would seemingly overrule attorney client privilege.
Of course Trump’s other attorney Evan Corcoran could run into the same legal quandary. He may not have signed the document, but he wrote it. But it was reportedly Christina Bobb who was the “custodian” of the classified documents – and that puts her on the biggest legal hot seat.
