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“The Whole Enchilada”: Pundits Wrongly Claim the Mar-a-Lago Raid Could Disqualify Trump from Future Office

JonathanTurley

Nevertheless, criminal charges are possible, including under Section 2071 which states that anyone can be prosecuted who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys … any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited … in any public office.”

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Laurence Tribe Claims Trump Could Be Charged With Espionage

JonathanTurley

The Section 2071 states that anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys … any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited … in any public office” can be fined or face up to three years in prison if convicted.

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Can Donald Trump Avoid a Reckoning in Court?

The Crime Report

to sit for depositions. It also now appears that unless the Manhattan prosecutors indict Trump by the end of the month when the current grand jury term expires , the Donald’s record of zero criminal indictments will remain intact. Our 45 th president is no stranger to the courts. with an impressive win-loss record of 451 to 38.

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The Mar-a-Lago Raid: Criminal Prosecution or Political Indemnification?

JonathanTurley

Prosecutions can include charges under Section 2071 which states that anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys … any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited … in any public office” can be fined or imprisoned up to three years.

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Poll: The J6 Hearings Had Virtually No Impact on Changing the Public Views

JonathanTurley

6 committee’s main aim is to ensure President Trump can’t run in 2024.” Indeed, much of this evidence would have been hard to refute like the deposition of former Attorney General Bill Barr on the election fraud allegations. Only eight percent answered in the affirmative while 89 percent said it made no change at all in their views.

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A Party of Short Sellers: Why Democrats Need to Re-Think Hunter’s Contempt

JonathanTurley

The political culture of short selling is nowhere more evident than in the “ballot-cleansing” efforts of Democratic officials and activists to remove Trump’s name from 2024 ballots as well as to remove primary opponents against Biden. Now, Democrats are about to do another short sell. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.