According to former federal prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, the DOJs filing from earlier this week,
basically spells out at least four different crimes
that Donald Trump could be charged with today. Now, Weissmann is a former federal prosecutor
as I mentioned. He actually worked with Robert Mueller on the Mueller investigation.
So he's a pretty good prosecutor, knows what he's talking about. So
let's jump right into the four crimes he says Donald Trump could be prosecuted for. The first
one are, well, he doesn't say prosecuted. He says, he's already determined he's guilty, which
you can't do that. I mean, legally speaking, you can't do that. He could come back and, and sue you
for it. So these are the things I'm not gonna use his phrasing of guilty. These are the things he
could be prosecuted for. Contempt of a grand jury subpoena. Now that one's fairly obvious, right?
The documents were subpoenaed. They were supposed to be given back. Trump's lawyers went said,
oh yeah, this is it. That's all we have. And then surveillance footage showed, no, you didn't give
it all back. So that would be contempt of a grand jury subpoena. Second one, guilty on obstruction
related charges. Also fairly obvious. Oh, we gave all the documents back. No need to look
anymore. And then no, you lied. So kind of the same thing, two different charges, because there
are two different issues at play there. The third one, unlawful retention of government documents.
I mean, I think that's pretty obvious, right? Illegal retention of government documents.
Sure. You had them. You're legally not allowed to have them. There's actually several different laws
that say that you cannot have these. There's also procedures in place where if you do want them,
you fill out the forms. You, you go through the hurdles, you do all those things.
And then if they determine it's safe for you to have them, then you can have them.
He didn't do that. So of course, illegal retention of government documents. And then the big one,
violations of the espionage act, which basically says that regardless of classification level,
whether it's declassified, top secret, highly classified, whatever it is, doesn't matter. If you
have United States national security documents, if you have defense documents from the United States
of America without permission, that is a violation of the espionage act. And yes, that is a federal
crime. So that's probably what we're looking at here with Donald Trump, those four
individual items. The espionage act. Contempt of grand jury subpoena, obstruction of justice,
illegal retention of documents. Take your pick. Any of those could be a fairly serious crime,
obviously some far more serious than others, but I think it's the Espionage act and the
presidential records act that are really going to carry the biggest penalties and punishments
because one of the punishments for violating the presidential records act is being barred from ever
holding office in the United States ever again. So I'd say it's a pretty big punishment.
The prison sentence is only three years. That's the max you can get for presidential
records violations. On the other hand, that espionage act thanks to Donald Trump himself.
That prison sentence is a little bit more hefty and he could be looking at some very,
very long prison terms because of his own doing both in stealing the documents and signing the law
that increased the penalties for it, depending on how many charges of it he is hit with.
For example, if he's hit with one charge of violating the espionage act,
we're talking about five years and depending on how they want to go with it, if they want
to hit him with 20 charges of violating the espionage act. Well, 20 times five is a hundred.
So yeah, they could do that if they want to go the individual route,
instead of just putting a blanket, one violation of the espionage act,
personally, I say go big or go home, right? Go for the hundred, not for the five
swing for the fences, cuz you're only gonna get one chance at bat with this guy.