Legal question: Can you be charged with multiple counts when destroying official WH documents.

[fightforfreedom]

Trump more than likely destroyed hundreds, if not thousands of official records. Do they all have to be included in one count, one charge? Or could he be charged with multiple counts.

I have a gut feeling this is going to turn into a bigger news story. This is a big deal.

[gab13by13]

1. I am not biting, you already have a thread for this topic.

[Merlot]

2. It was known years ago that he was tearing up official documents

[fightforfreedom]

4. Now we have the documents he tore up, the smoking gun with his fingerprints on it.

[JT45242]

3. should be -- if like the forms for top secret clearance

As explained to me by several people who worked for the Air Force -- each piece of information that violates a clearance rule is up to ten years and ten thousand dollars. I would surmise that records acts work like secrecy acts.

[2naSalit]

5. It could be...

If there were a prosecutor willing to pursue it, which is unlikely at this point given the mountain of other offenses for which he's more likely to be indicted.

[fightforfreedom]

7. Could this not be added too a larger indictment?

We see that all the time in criminal cases.

[2naSalit]

10. Probably.

Perhaps it will, or perhaps it is already under consideration with a little oomph since the actual hard evidence arrived. We are only given a little info at a time to keep it from becoming too overwhelming to the public. I suspect a lot of what we want to see the committee do is already under way, we just aren't being informed until the time is right for that info to be made public.

I see too much doubting of those doing the work currently. I think they are doing just what is needed but not spilling the beans every day like those being investigated.

[malaise]

6. Or moving some to Mar-a-Lardo

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10484949/National-Archives-retrieve-boxes-official-White-House-records-Trumps-Florida-home.html

[fightforfreedom]

9. Wait till we learn what documents he tore up and then were taped back together.

Wait till we here the testimony of witnesses who witnessed Trump destroy, burn documents. What was in those documents?

It has been reported many Whitehouse staff are cooperating with the committee. What kind of evidence have they turned over to the committee?

[fightforfreedom]

12. How did the national archives know Trump had records at his house?

What did Trump get rid of before they were retrieved?

[PJMcK]

8. Yes

If you have a functioning DOJ.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Apparently, only if you are a plebeian.

[Hoyt]

13. Don't think tearing up documents and leaving the pieces is going to get trump.

[Sneederbunk]

14. TFG will not be charged.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. For this thread

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. According to Neal Katyal, this is a crime