Trump has refused to settle with prosecutors in the case of classified documents

A month after the FBI raided his residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida), Donald Trump’s lawyer, Christopher Kisesuggested that he approach the Department of Justice discreetly to negotiate a resolution of the confidential documents case that would entail a pseudo confession of guilt former President of the United States with a minimum sentence. Maybe something that would allow him to save face, admit it as an oversight, turn the page.

Instead, Trump preferred to listen to other legal opinions that resonated more with his own ego: the documents were his, nothing and no one could tell him what to do with them, he had his rights, or that’s why he was president when they were given to him .Are they. That’s what Tom Fitton, his friend and director of the conservative group Judicial Watch, told him, who was still warming his head Monday while eating filet mignon at his El Doral golf club. “I’ve read the statement of charges and I don’t see obstruction of justice anywhere,” he told the Washington Post on Wednesday.

Trump removed Kise from the case, who was still with him Tuesday when he turned himself in to a Miami court, and brought in Evan Corcoran, another lawyer who agreed with him on the seriousness of the allegations and urged him to comply. with court orders. Even the tycoon didn’t listen to him. “He never thought the FBI would search his mansion and he could face up to 400 years in prison,” his advisers told the newspaper.

His refusal to heed the legal advice of his lawyers and stick to the fighting voices that echo his own is reminiscent of his stance after his election defeat in November 2020, when he preferred to listen to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his crazy election fraud theory. “He can’t admit that he did something wrong,” explained his former chief of staff, former General John Kelly. “He wanted to keep them (classified papers) and didn’t want to let anyone tell him what to do,” he says.

Former president finally returned fifteen boxes, but he has at least 64 left. Keeping those classified documents that affect national security has become a matter of ego. Now it is also the base of his campaign, which allows him to raise funds and present himself as a victim of what he calls deep state (the deep state or the powerful people around it), which he promises to dismantle if he becomes president again. He’s also an awkward obstacle for his GOP primary rivals, faced with having to commit to pardoning him if they win the November 2024 election.

Mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, who on Wednesday became the only Hispanic in the upcoming general election by throwing his hat in the ring as a candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, faced the question this Thursday in his first interview with ABC. “Look, if we keep talking about Trump, there’s no doubt in my mind that he’s going to be nominated,” he snapped.

That’s one of the many reasons why Michael Shear, who wrote George W. Bush’s speeches, asked President Joe Biden in an opinion column Thursday to pardon Trump for these crimes and spare the country a controversial lawsuit that only serves to magnify his presence.

“I’m shocked that Republicans don’t care about their crimes,” first lady Jill Biden admitted to some Democrats, breaking the official line not to comment. Her husband chose not to comment on the matter and ordered his campaign not to mention the case. For him, Trump as a rival has the best chance of winning the elections, but it is also possible that he underestimates him again.