The former federal prosecutor said Friday that the DOJ is treating Trump differently as it continues to investigate his mishandling of classified documents.
Washington, D.C., District Chief Judge Beryl Howell to hold Trump's office in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena that was issued in May that required the former president to return all classified documents.
However, the federal judge on Friday refused to hold Trump or his legal team in contempt of court and asked the DOJ to handle the issue itself,News reported. Had Judge Howell agreed to hold the ex-president in contempt, he would have been fined on a daily basis until he complied with the subpoena's requirements.
Kirschner on Friday said that Judge Howell was right to decline the DOJ's request and criticized the DOJ's prolonged process in indicting Trump as federal prosecutors asked Trump's lawyers to certify twice that the former president gave back all classified information and that no more documents were still at Mar-a-Lago, according to"What Judge Howell was saying in substance 'do your job' and frankly it makes [the] DOJ look weak and feckless...
Above, former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Palm Beach, Florida, on November 8. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said on Friday that the former president should be indicted because he already"confessed" to taking highly classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago house after leaving the White House.Kirschner said that the DOJ is putting Trump a"little above the law" by not treating him the same way any American who commits crimes would be treated.
"If somebody robs a bank. First of all, we typically don't subpoena the bank robber and say 'can you please return all the money you stole to the bank or maybe bring it to the grand jury pursuant to this subpoena. No, you get a search warrant and an arrest warrant and you lock up the bank robber for the crime he committed, but that's not the way [the] DOJ decided to go with Donald Trump," Kirschner added.during the court-authorized search.
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