BREAKING Feds inform Trump he is target in Mar-a-Lago document case

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85. One of the things that

may convince former officials to take a plea and testify is that the chain of custody with respect to classified documents also carries responsibilities regarding the handling of those documents. In other words if you are in the official chain of receiving and forwarding those documents you can't just toss them around for anybody to pick up etc. The WH Chief of Staff would be the ultimate administrative person of responsibility to ensure proper handling up and down the chain.

Remember when Omarosa and others began talking about the WH destroying records despite being instructed from Mueller to preserve all records? If she knew you can bet others did and Mueller references this obstruction in his report. I bring that up in the context of that conduct likely continuing throughout and afterwards. Meadows and others who knew and participated (remember C. Hutchinson's testimony to the J6 committee) could be in deep trouble for years worth of violations just on that point alone. An underling like Meadows would be in even deeper trouble due to his position of authority/responsibility and also because he would have been instructed very well by the relevant departments about the proper handling/return/declassification of classified documents and so if he tries to claim that he was "ordered" to destroy some classified documents he would have no legal basis for that as a defense.

The Nixon case proved that despite his claims that "if the President does it then it's legal" the court wasn't going along with that and therefore receiving an order from the President that you know to be unlawful will carry legal liability for a violation of that law and "he told me to" doesn't erase that liability.