{"id":1948727,"date":"2023-06-15T22:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-was-not-interested-in-proposal-in-fall-of-2022-to-avoid-charges-in-documents-probe-report\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:42:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:42:45","slug":"trump-was-not-interested-in-proposal-in-fall-of-2022-to-avoid-charges-in-documents-probe-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-was-not-interested-in-proposal-in-fall-of-2022-to-avoid-charges-in-documents-probe-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump rejected a proposal in late 2022 to evade charges in a documents probe, per report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-was-not-interested-in-proposal-in-fall-of-2022-to-avoid-charges-in-documents-probe-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948727&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><h2>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> Ignored Plan to Defuse Federal Criminal Investigation<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/06\/14\/trump-indictment-classified-documents-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that attorney Christopher Kise believed that the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland did not want to charge the former president and that the department would be willing to agree to a settlement in the case if the former president were to return all the remaining documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the report, Trump was &#8220;not interested&#8221; in the plan after listening to others in his orbit who urged him to take a more &#8220;pugilistic approach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Trump attorney Alex Cannon warned the former president of the serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-statue-toppling-an-act-of-love-court-told\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter Statue Toppling an 'Act of Love', Court Told\">legal repercussions<\/a> he would face if he did not return the documents to the National Archives in the fall of 2021.<\/p>\n<p><h3>Trump Blocks National Archives&#8217; Attempt to Retrieve Missing Documents<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>When the National Archives discovered that some of Trump&#8217;s White House records were missing in early 2021, they reached out to Patrick Philbin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boat-shoes-meets-blackface-buttigieg-honored-to-appear-with-virginia-governor-he-urged-to-resign\/\" title=\"Boat Shoes Meets Blackface: Buttigieg \u2018Honored\u2019 to Appear with Virginia Governor He Urged to Resign\">deputy counsel<\/a> to then-President Trump, for assistance. However, Philbin&#8217;s attempts to help retrieve the material were reportedly blocked by Trump himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not theirs, it&#8217;s mine,&#8221; Trump told several of his advisers, asserting his ownership of the documents.<\/p>\n<p>Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann also warned Trump of the serious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-democrat-group-under-criminal-investigation-for-work-with-firm-tied-to-hunter-biden\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Democrat Group Under Criminal Investigation For Work With Firm Tied To Hunter Biden\">legal jeopardy<\/a> he could face if he did not comply.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><h3>Trump&#8217;s Decision to Listen to Non-Lawyer Advice<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite the advice from his lawyers, Trump reportedly took the guidance of Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, who is not a lawyer. Multiple reports, including The Washington Post&#8217;s, have highlighted this decision.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly claimed that he should be legally clear due to the Presidential Records Act. However, former Attorney General William Barr and former U.S. prosecutor Andrew McCarthy have disputed this notion, arguing that the act only covers certain types of records and not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-to-unseal-more-documents-related-to-trump-raid-refuses-to-unseal-key-document\/\" title=\"DOJ To Unseal More Documents Related To Trump Raid, Refuses To Unseal Key Document\">highly classified material<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><h3>Trump&#8217;s Outspoken Response<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Trump took to social media to express his frustration, demanding that all charges against him be dropped and everything illegally taken from his home be returned. He accused the investigation of being election interference.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;SO NOW THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT, PLUS THE CLINTON SOCKS CASE, TOTALLY EXONERATED ME FROM THE CONTINUING WITCH HUNT BROUGHT ON BY CORRUPT JOE BIDEN, THE DOJ, DERANGED JACK SMITH, AND THEIR RADICAL LEFT, MARXIST THUGS, WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST ME, APOLOGIZE, AND RETURN EVERYTHING THAT WAS ILLEGALLY TAKEN (FOURTH AMENDMENT) FROM MY HOME?&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><h3>Legal Experts Dispute Trump&#8217;s Defense<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former Attorney General William Barr and former U.S. prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, both staunch conservatives, have challenged Trump&#8217;s defense. They argue that the Presidential Records Act only applies to certain types of records and does not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-was-not-interested-in-proposal-in-fall-of-2022-to-avoid-charges-in-documents-probe-report\/\" title=\"Trump rejected a proposal in late 2022 to evade charges in a documents probe, per report.\">protect highly classified material created<\/a> by government agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump allegedly disregarded a plan proposed by his lawyer, Christopher Kise, to resolve the federal criminal investigation into his handling of government records. The plan was suggested after the FBI raided Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago residence. The Washington Post disclosed this information, indicating Trump&#8217;s apparent indifference towards defusing the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1948728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3990,4035,5407,5249,5752,4083,5210,7298,3819,3634],"class_list":["post-1948727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-3990","tag-charges","tag-documents","tag-evade","tag-late","tag-probe","tag-proposal","tag-rejected","tag-report","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}