One of former President Donald Trump’s attorneys has secured her own attorney in the wake of a probe into government documents he kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported that Christina Bobb, an attorney who signed a letter certifying that Trump had returned all sensitive records to the government, had hired Tampa-based former prosecutor John Lauro to represent her. She spoke to federal investigators Friday about the records, said NBC News.
During that discussion, Bobb “named two other Trump attorneys involved with the case,” according to “three sources familiar with the matter,” cited by NBC.
Bobb signed the certification letter June 3. According to NBC’s sources, it indicated that Trump had complied with a May grand jury subpoena and no longer had documents marked classified at Mar-a-Lago, a beach club open to private members.
However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that the statement was not true by the time it decided to conduct a raid on Mar-a-Lago in August. They found more than 100 documents with classification markings through that raid, said NBC.
Although Bobb signed the statement, she did not daft it, said the outlet’s anonymous sources. She told investigators that Trump’s lead lawyer in the case at the time, Evan Corcoran, drafted it and told her to sign it, according to NBC’s sources.
Bobb holds a B.A. from Arizona State University, an M.B.A.
from San Diego State University, a J.D. from California Western School of Law, and an L.L.M. in National Security Law from Georgetown University Law Center, according to One America Network parent company Herring Networks, Inc.
Her career includes time serving in the United States Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate.
“During her time on active duty, she was as an operational law attorney in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, assisting the Command in all legal matters relating to operations and intelligence,” said Herring. She also has experience working as a clerk at the Office of Legal Counsel for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, served for several years as a civil litigation attorney and was the Executive Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security.
Bobb was hired as a breaking news reporter for OAN in 2020. According to The Verge, OAN is a conservative news channel that YouTube has suspended for promoting a fake COVID-19 cure.
At the time that she signed the June 3 document, Bobb was Trump’s custodian of record, said NBC.
Apart from not drafting the document herself, Bobb reportedly requested a rewritten disclaimer be included that stated she was certifying Trump had no more records “based upon the information that has been provided to me,” said the sources.
“She had to insist on that disclaimer twice before she signed it,” said one of the sources. This source added that Bobb “is not criminally liable,” and that she is not going to be charged.
According to NBC, the information Bobb gave investigators last week “could play a crucial part in the widening investigation into Trump concerning his possession of records that the federal government alleges he should not have kept after he left office.”
Bobb, Corcoran and the Justice Department did not return messages seeking comment, said the outlet.
As of Sunday, Bobb was at an Arizona rally that Trump appeared at, according to a tweet she posted.
“Wow. Fake news out in force today,” she said in a tweet Tuesday.
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