Here we explore the possible legal ramifications for the president and his son.
5 pushed back against a Washington Post story that said the president was privately fretting that his son, Donald Trump Jr., “inadvertently may have wandered into legal jeopardy.”
They argue the meeting may have violated election laws or could have amounted to conspiracy to defraud the government. 5: “The question is, ‘What law, statute or rule or regulation’s been violated?’ Nobody’s pointed to one.”īut some legal experts disagree. Or, as his attorney Jay Sekulow put it on ABC’s “This Week” on Aug. “There is enormous concerns that they accessed information that could potentially put congressional members at threat of being blackmailed.In a recent tweet, President Donald Trump said the Trump Tower meeting between his son, other campaign officials and a Russian attorney connected to the Kremlin, which Trump acknowledged was “to get information on an opponent,” was “totally legal and done all the time in politics.” “It has all the hallmarks of blackmail, spy craft – it’s hard to believe that this is plain old bank fraud,” the source claimed. official reportedly told Circa that the case “could potentially be one of the largest security breaches involving members of Congress.” “Why didn’t Xavier Becerra know this because it happened on his watch? Each member had their own server to protect against this and Awan intentionally tried to hide what he had done from investigators.”Ĭirca alleges police informed Becerra that the server was the subject of an investigation but received a falsified image of the server which they reportedly consider to be interference in a criminal investigation.Ī former U.S. “There is no reason to accommodate all the members’ data on one server and one that was apparently hidden,” a senior House official told Circa. Xavier Becerra, who left Congress in January when he was sworn in as Attorney General of California. At the time, the organization was chaired by Rep. The report also claims Awan allegedly transferred files on House Democrats to a secret server attached to the House Democratic Caucus. “Everybody talks about Russia – but look at the access (Awan) had and potentially those emails could have been sold.” “I think this may lead to information as to who really accessed the DNC server,” said the official.
#CRIMINALIZING INFORMATION FROM THE DNC SERVER FULL#
Circa alleges Awan transferred massive amounts of information, including government documents and emails, to his own private Dropbox account, allowing him to access the information even after he was blocked from DNC networks.Ī senior House official told Circa that Awan was uploading “terabits of information to Dropbox so he was possibly able to access the information even after he was banned from the network.” The House official claimed that they believe a full congressional investigation should be performed on the transfer of the data. Circa reports that Imran Awan, the former IT staffer for Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and other Congressional Democrats arrested for possible bank fraud and theft of government property, is now being investigated over possibly selling sensitive information to foreign governments.
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