The Ploy to Stop Feds From Using Trump’s Lawyer Against Him

When the federal indictment against Donald Trump was finally unveiled on Friday, his advisers were shocked at the degree to which investigators have made the former president’s own defense lawyer the No. 1 government witness to prove Trump committed a coverup, according to two people briefed on the matter.

After all, Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran’s professional notes of his interactions with Trump show the way the former president openly mused about lying to investigators about the existence of hundreds of classified records at his oceanside estate, Mar-a-Lago—and seemed to insinuate that his lawyer should take the fall for him by destroying evidence.

Those damning notes—which were previously handed over to federal investigators by a D.C. judge despite the firm protests of Trump’s legal team—strongly underpin the government’s case that Trump knew full well he was engaged in a coverup. Corcoran’s notes are the pivotal evidence behind the most severe criminal charge Trump faces: conspiracy to obstruct justice, which comes with the threat of a 20-year prison sentence.

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