According to recent reports, a former Trump organization slash Trump campaign slash Trump
lawyer, manned by the name of Alex Cannon.
It was reported that Mr. Cannon was instructed by Donald Trump himself to lie to the federal
government.
Here's what happened earlier this year, while Mr. Cannon was of course, still working for
Donald Trump, Trump comes up and says, Hey Alex.
I don't know if he called him Alex, maybe he calls him Mal, but he says, Hey, Alex Cannon,
I need you submit this document to the National Archives, swearing that I have returned all
of the documents that I have taken from the White House.
Alex Cannon, according to the reports, looks at it and goes, I can't sign this because
I don't know that this is true.
So, you know, unless you can prove to me that you've returned everything, I'm, I'm not gonna
do this.
I'm not gonna put my name on something.
That, of course is a binding legal document because I can't verify the validity of it
should come as no surprise that shortly after this event, Mr. Cannon was no longer working
for Donald Trump.
But it's a good thing that Mr. Cannon did not sign that document because ultimately
a new document was of course, drafted by Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran, who is still with the
Trump, uh, uh, group signed by Christina Bob, another one of Trump lawyers who is still
with the legal group.
And now Ms. Bob has had to hire her own lawyers because she is facing likely perjury and obstruction
charges, or at least investigation into whether or not she intentionally misled the federal
government for signing that very same kind of document that Mr. Cannon refused to sign
earlier this year.
So what does that mean for Donald Trump?
He knew, he knew the documents were still at Malago.
So when he went up to his lawyer and said, Sign this document saying everything is fine,
what he is doing is considered coercion, which of course is a form of obstruction of justice.
He is using his position as an employer because he has hired the lawyer.
The lawyer works for him, he is the employee, Trump is the employer.
He is using that position of power to get a subordinate to do something illegal, which
is to falsely state to the federal government that Trump returned all the documents.
Trump knew it was fake.
Trump knew it was a lie, and he tried to convince the lawyer to lie to the federal government.
Oh, and by the way, this is also something of interest for this particular case in this
very same report where Mr. Cannon's story was told.
It was also revealed by multiple sources at the White
House that Donald Trump actually personally packed up some of the documents into the very
boxes that they were then shipped in to Mar Lago.
So Trump can't even try to use the defense of, Oh, I didn't know the staff packed him
up.
Nope.
The staff actually says, You personally did it.
And there's multiple different corroborating witnesses on that fact.
Now, what happens if Mr. Cannon is accurate in his assessment?
If this is what happened, Trump absolutely should be investigated for obstruction of
justice, cuz as I said, that coercion, I need you to lie to the federal government, even
if it's not spoken outright, is absolutely a prosecutable offense.
And if the DOJs looking for a quick slam dunk against Donald Trump, that might be it.