{"id":39780,"date":"2024-02-03T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39780"},"modified":"2024-02-03T13:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:51:59","slug":"enough-clowning-around-if-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/02\/03\/enough-clowning-around-if-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough Clowning Around &#8230; If True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/special-counsel-questioned-witnesses-2-rooms-fbi-search\/story?id=106826552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from <em><strong>ABC News<\/strong><\/em> is intriguing for both the alleged behavior and its implications:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Ekqk nlgH yuUa MvWX TjIX aGjv ebVH\">Special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s team has questioned several witnesses about a closet and a so-called &#8220;hidden room&#8221; inside former President Donald Trump&#8217;s residence at Mar-a-Lago that the FBI didn&#8217;t check while\u00a0<a class=\"zZyg UbGl iFzk qdXb WCDh DbOX tqUt GpWV iJYz \" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/trump-mar-lago-raided-fbi-agents\/story?id=88116571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">searching the estate<\/a>\u00a0in August 2022, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv\">As described to ABC News, the line of questioning in several interviews ahead of Trump&#8217;s\u00a0<a class=\"zZyg UbGl iFzk qdXb WCDh DbOX tqUt GpWV iJYz \" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/trump-federal-indictment-unsealed-classified-documents-probe\/story?id=99963920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">indictment last year<\/a> on classified document charges suggests that &#8212; long after the FBI seized dozens of boxes and more than 100 documents marked classified from Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago estate &#8212; Smith&#8217;s team was trying to determine if there might still be more classified documents there. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk nlgH yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv\">As investigators would later learn, Trump allegedly had the closet&#8217;s lock changed while his attorney was in Mar-a-Lago&#8217;s basement, searching for classified documents in a storage room that he was told would have all such documents. Trump&#8217;s alleged efforts to conceal classified documents from both the FBI\u00a0<a class=\"zZyg UbGl iFzk qdXb WCDh DbOX tqUt GpWV iJYz \" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/sources-special-counsel-claims-trump-deliberately-misled-attorneys\/story?id=98024191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">and his own attorney<\/a>\u00a0are a key part of Smith&#8217;s indictment against Trump in Florida.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To be sure, this is an unverified report. But I think if it&#8217;s found to be true, immediately put Mr Trump up on charges of obstruction, as a signal to the American electorate that one of the prominent figures in the Presidential 2024 election is apparently guilty of illegal behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Next, determine, if possible, the contents of all of these hidden rooms, and if the release of those contents could be damaging to the security of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>And if this report is not verified, then &#8220;never mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report from ABC News is intriguing for both the alleged behavior and its implications: Special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s team has questioned several witnesses about a closet and a so-called &#8220;hidden room&#8221; inside former President Donald Trump&#8217;s residence at Mar-a-Lago that the FBI didn&#8217;t check while\u00a0searching the estate\u00a0in August 2022, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/02\/03\/enough-clowning-around-if-true\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39781,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39780\/revisions\/39781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}