The superseding indictment issued Thursday against disgraced former President Trump and his minions over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents shitshow specifically adds to the charges the unlawful retention of the now-infamous Iran war plan the fat bastard was caught on tape in July 2021 showing to dickhead former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ ghostwriters during an interview for Meadows’ lame memoir in which Trump complained about Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley.
“At the time of this exchange, the writer, the publisher, and TRUMP’s two staff members did not have security clearances or any need-to-know any classified information about a plan of attack on Country A [Iran]. The document that TRUMP possessed and showed on July 21 2021, is charged as Count 32 in this Superseding Indictment,” Smith’s prosecutors wrote in the complaint. The addition of the Iran document raises questions of why it was left out of the first complaint against Trump even as the transcript of the audio of him showing it to the ghostwriters was included.
CNN first reported the existence of the Iran war plan document and the interview audio on May 31st, following up on June 2nd with sources telling them the file’s whereabouts were unknown and that Smith had issued a subpoena for its return in mid-March. That the document was not included in the first indictment just days later would have seemed to confirm that Smith’s team didn’t have it yet, which of course Trump and his fanboys seized on as proof that it never existed. Then as more details and then the actual audio of the exchange steadily leaked out they stuck to that, with Trump also for some fucking insane reason claiming it was “actually an exoneration” and even pretending to a Semafor reporter that he had been lying to the Meadows memoir ghostwriters and was trying to impress them while waving around newspaper articles or some bullshit.
The superseding indictment says the document was returned to the National Archives along with a batch of others on January 17th, 2022, but it does not do anything to explain how Smith’s team was able to ascertain that it was definitely the document Trump had waved around or why they would have issued a subpoena for it more than a year later after obtaining the interview audio. Something happened in the last six weeks or so that Smith’s team felt confident that they had this nailed down to add to their fire under the fat pig. Exactly what is the real mystery here.
Whatever went down, this new indictment is obviously pretty bad for Trump legally and downright embarrassing for his fanboys who had made the original complaint’s omission of a count for Iran war document into a not completely unreasonable line of defense for their Orange Allah.
It’s just barely worse than the part where Smith’s team writes “DE OLIVEIRA told Trump Employee 4 that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted. Trump Employee 4 responded that he would not know how to do that, and that he did not believe that he would have the rights to do that. Trump Employee 4 told DE OLIVEIRA that DE OLIVEIRA would have to reach out to another employee who was a supervisor of security for TRUMP’s business organization. DE OLIVEIRA then insisted to TRUMP Employee 4 that ‘the boss’ wanted the server deleted and asked, ‘what are we going to do?'”
Deleting servers is such a Hillary thing. You never go full Hillary and Trump did just that.