Thread by @SethAbramson

(📢) A key fact legal analysts are missing today: according to prior major media reporting, in late 2021 Trump began going through the classified records *himself* to decide what he was willing to return. It was after this curation that records were removed from the storage area.

(📢) And we now know where those records were removed to: Trump’s private spaces within Mar-a-Lago, including a closet in his office. When the FBI arrived in June, Trump greeted them but wouldn’t answer questions. He left his lawyers to speak to them, knowing what they would say.

(📢) The lawyers Trump left with the FBI in June falsely represented that everything relevant to the May subpoena had been turned over *and* refused to let the FBI look in the storage area, clear evidence that they knew what Trump had done and were aiding and abetting his crime.

(📢) But even more importantly, Trump’s late 2021 curation and removal of the materials he stole from D.C. began a course of criminal Obstruction that now has the further result of establishing his consciousness of guilt: he well knew he wasn’t supposed to have what he’d stolen.

(📢) So Trump knew he had stolen goods of incalculable value and sorted through the stolen goods in advance of an FBI search to remove those he considered most valuable. Why? To ensure they wouldn’t fall into the hands of law enforcement. Why? Because he had other plans for them.

(📢) CONCLUSION: It’s now actually inconceivable that Donald Trump will not be federally indicted on multiple charges.

This is why he had a meltdown publicly yesterday. This is why his allies are threatening violence. Everyone knows what is coming now. It has become unavoidable.

(📢) PS: Another miss by some analysts: insurrectionist Christina Bobb’s false statement to the FBI in June 2022 began, “Based upon the information that has been provided to me...” The common legal phrase is “based upon information *and belief*...” Bobb was *telegraphing* that...

(📢) PS2: ...she was merely passing on information that’d been given to her—which information she had clearly received from the man who supervised her meeting with the FBI before disappearing: Trump himself. She was flatly refusing to say that she believed her statement was true.

(📢) PS3: So not only did Trump know he was committing crimes, his lawyers knew as well and were trying to protect themselves. This suggests that when DOJ indicts Bobb—as it should and even must—she’ll flip on Trump because Trump’s words to her weren’t attorney-client privileged.

(📢) PS4: An attorney not only cannot commit any crimes themselves—the same as anyone else—but they cannot assist a client in an ongoing or future crime and then subsequently claim communications pursuant to that collusion are privileged. The “crime-fraud exception” precludes it.

(And I’ll just add here that the FBI source in Trump’s inner circle must be *exceedingly* highly placed if the FBI is *so confident* that after Trump's late 2021 curation he didn’t remove any documents to other Trump properties that it’s decided to *not even search any of them*.)