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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5385473" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>The affidavit and DOJ memo also both raise the possibility that Trump and his associates tried to obstruct the government’s effort to retrieve the sensitive documents and that they could try to similarly hamper the DOJ’s investigation. The statute that covers obstruction, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1519" target="_blank">Section 1519</a>, could put Trump and his team in more danger, according to Georgetown Law professor Julie O’Sullivan. Since Trump has claimed that he already declassified the documents in his possession, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/us/politics/obstruction-trump-search-documents.html" target="_blank">O’Sullivan told the Times</a>, “he is essentially conceding that he knew he had them” and has been “obstructing the return of these documents” by refusing to hand them over.</p></blockquote><p></p>