OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
4:19 PM – Tuesday, December 31, 2024
A last resort endeavor in the continuing legal processes involving Trump’s co-defendants has begun with special counsel Jack Smith moving the Mar-a-Lago documents case to federal prosecutors in Florida, according to surfacing reports.
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On Friday, Smith officially turned over the Mar-a-Lago documents case to federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida. In the prosecution of Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, co-defendants of President-elect Donald Trump, this ruling is crucial.
While citing Justice Department regulations that forbid prosecuting a sitting president, Smith withdrew all charges against Trump in November. Trump’s election case was quickly resolved, and his involvement in the Mar-a-Lago documents case came to an end when the charges were dismissed without prejudice.
However, there is still no resolution to the legal issues involving Trump’s personal valet, Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago property manager de Oliveira. Accusations against both individuals include obstructing the course of justice, lying to investigators, and hiding official papers.
The allegations are based on claims that the two were involved in a larger plot to conceal boxes containing thousands of documents from Trump’s former lawyer and federal investigators. Approximately 300 documents with classified marks were allegedly among these materials.
According to investigators, the records were unlawfully removed from the White House at the conclusion of Trump’s presidency and failed to be returned to the National Archives as mandated by law.
On the flip side, important findings were also discovered in a separate inquiry concerning President Joe Biden’s mishandling of confidential documents. However, the report by special counsel Robert Hur unfairly found “no grounds” for criminal charges against Biden due to his old age and mental decline.
Hur argued that the court would likely see Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Nevertheless, why that same president, whom the DOJ strangely argues is too “elderly” to be prosecuted, has nonetheless still managed to pardon his son Hunter, continue sending billions of dollars of taxpayer money over to Ukraine and other countries and causes, in addition to his lengthy list of controversial commutations, has been questioned by many Americans.
According to the report, Biden “willfully” kept and shared highly sensitive documents when he was a private citizen. It also noted his “poor memory” of what happened and his uncertainty about the situation, which were allegedly factors in the decision to drop charges.
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