Turns out Donald Trump’s people drained a Mar-a-Lago swimming pool and flooded a room where evidence was kept
Earlier today Jack Smith personally met with Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorneys in the classified documents probe, and the timing and the circumstances make it pretty clear that this was the ‘We’re indicting your client’ meeting. Now more of the details are pouring out this evening about Smith’s probe – and Trump’s alleged antics.
Two months after the DOJ had the FBI seize classified documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, one of Trump’s employees drained a swimming pool in a way that ended up flooding the room where the surveillance records were kept, according to a surreal new report from CNN. Prosecutors have known about this for awhile and even gotten testimony about it.
It’s not clear from the reporting whether prosecutors think this flooding happened on purpose. In any case, the surveillance evidence wasn’t damaged, and best anyone can tell, Jack Smith has all that surveillance evidence as part of his criminal case. For this kind of thing to be the basis of an obstruction of justice charge, there would need to be proof that Trump or someone else instructed the employee to flood the surveillance room on purpose, and nothing along those lines is being reported.
Still, this all keeps getting stranger. Either Trump has the kind of inept idiots working for him who can’t drain a swimming pool without accidentally flooding the building, or Trump has the kind of inept idiots working for him who purposely tried to destroy a room full of evidence by flooding it, and didn’t manage to destroy any of it.
