By Steve Neavling
The Justice Department and FBI are pursuing possible obstruction of justice charges against former President Trump in connection with the classified documents case, The Washington Post reports.
The agencies have compiled new evidence that suggests Trump may have impeded the federal government’s efforts to collect all the sensitive records.
FBI agents seized thousands of government records, some of them highly classified, from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August.
According to new evidence, boxes of records were moved from storage at Mar-a-Lago after the subpoena was served.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said the DOJ has no evidence to charge the former president with obstruction.
“The witch-hunts against President Trump have no basis in facts or law,” Cheung said. “The deranged special counsel and the DoJ have now resorted to prosecutorial misconduct by illegally leaking information to corrupt the legal process and weaponize the justice system in order to manipulate public opinion and conduct election interference, because they are clearly losing all across the board.”
In a separate case involving hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels, Trump was indicted last week and is expected to be arrested and arraigned Tuesday.
