Former President Trump Defies Court Order and Lawyers Testify Against Him

Former President Donald Trump, who was responsible for executing and upholding the laws of the United States, defied a legally enforceable court order on May 23, 2022. The order required him to surrender intelligence files that he had illegally retained at his Mar-a-Lago resort club and estate in Palm Beach. Trump sat down with two lawyers he had retained to help him handle the grand-jury subpoena. However, during the meeting, he turned the conversation to Hillary Clinton and spoke about a lawyer who had represented her when she received a subpoena demanding that she turn over emails from her nonsecure server system. Trump advised his lawyers that the lawyer who represented Clinton had done a great job by deleting the emails and taking the fall for it. This soliloquy was not from Trump’s enemies, but from his own lawyers who were trying to help him. One of his lawyers, Evan Corcoran, was subpoenaed and forced to testify. Corcoran fought to preserve Trump’s attorney-client privilege, even though Trump had blithely negated it by using Corcoran to provide false information, under oath, in response to a subpoena. Corcoran provided the lurid testimony reflected in the indictment. The problem is not that Democrats are going after Trump, but that every official who betrays the nation’s trust should be prosecuted. The lesson of the Clinton precedent is that Joe Biden should be investigated and prosecuted. The scales of justice need to be evened out, and the fix for a two-tiered justice system is not equal injustice under the law. Trump’s lawyers testified that he tried to get them to destroy evidence and obstruct justice, which suggests he did.