Commentary: Trump doesn’t just threaten the rule of law, he threatens the legal profession as a whole
by Hilary Gerzhoy, Chicago Tribune
Sep 13, 2022
3 minutes
The mounting evidence that Donald Trump mishandled classified information after leaving office — and the response of his legal team to the Department of Justice investigation — reveals the former president’s threat to another critical institution: the legal profession.
As part of the Justice Department’s efforts to recover classified materials Trump took with him from the White House, Trump’s lawyer Christina Bobb certified on June 3 that all of the documents had been relinquished. The FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago debunked this certification, placing Bobb and others in legal jeopardy.
The legal threat to Trump’s lawyers is hardly
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