Friday, June 09, 2023

"Isn't it better if there are no documents?"

54. On May 23,2022,TRUMP met with Trump Attorney 1 and Trump Attorney 2 at The Mar-a-Lago Club to discuss the response to the May 11 Subpoena . Trump Attorney 1 and Trump Attorney 2 told TRUMP that they needed to search for documents that would be responsive to the subpoena and provide a certification that there had been compliance with the subpoena. TRUMP, in sum and substance, made the following statements, among others, as memorialized by Trump Attorney 1: 

"I don't want anybody looking, I don't want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don't, I don't want you looking through my boxes.

"Well what if we, what happens if we just don't respond at all or don't play ball with them? 

"Wouldn't it be better if we just told them we don't have anything here? 

"Well look isn't it better if there are no documents?"

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