Trump lawyers Christina Bobb and Evan Corcoran testified before a grand jury in January

Two of Donald Trump’s personal lawyers testified before a grand jury about the discovery of hundreds of classified documents at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022.

The lawyers, identified by the Wall Street Journal as Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb, made their appearance in early January. The newspaper did not report on what was said during their respective testimonies.

Before the WSJ report, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman reported on Corcoran’s appearance, describing it as an “important moment” in the investigation of the documents.

Haberman tweeted: “Unclear if Trump knew his attorney Evan Corcoran appeared before the grand jury prior to tonight’s news (he will know now if not before).”

The investigation into Trump’s possession of classified documents and the Apprentice’s former host’s efforts to remain in power in 2020 continues to escalate under the leadership of special counsel Jack Smith.

This week, it was reported that more documents were discovered at Trump’s Florida home in January when Smith subpoenaed former Vice President Mike Pence.

The extraordinary scenario of a former vice president potentially testifying against his former boss in a criminal investigation comes as Pence considers launching a 2024 Republican presidential bid against Trump.

The two have been estranged since a mob of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021 tried to stop Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.

Trump’s attorney, Christina Bobb, was at Mar-a-Lago during the FBI raid on August 8.

The New York Times reported that she is the attorney who signed a statement attesting to a “diligent search” of classified government documents. It was later reported that Evan Corcoran told Bobb to sign the statement.

Bobb told federal investigators during an interview in October that the letter was actually drafted and prepared by another of Trump’s lawyers, Evan Corcoran, and that he had been asked by him to sign it as custodian of the records.

During that interview, Bobb was offered immunity in exchange for more testimony, something she declined, stating she didn’t need it.

Bobb is a former OAN host who criticized the FBI after the August raid; she even said that she anticipated the FBI “would make things up and think whatever they wanted.” Describing what was at Mar-a-Lago, she said, “There’s just nothing there.”

That claim was refuted by the filing, which says agents seized 33 boxes containing “more than 100 classified records.”

Bobb told OAN shortly after the raid that “there was nothing there” and said she was “a little puzzled as to why.” [the FBI] I would do something so drastic, so disrespectful and so dishonorable, apart from the fact that it’s a political tool.’

She said she was prevented from viewing the search, but said FBI members “just do things.”

She told Fox News on Aug. 12, “We’ve been very cooperative with the Biden administration and the Department of Justice and we turned in whatever we found, whatever we had.”

After the raid, Trump’s son Eric told DailyMail.com that Bobb was forced to stand at the end of the Mar-a-Lago driveway during the raid.

Bobb also promoted the Arizona Senate audit of the 2020 election that ultimately affirmed Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

In July, Corcoran represented former Trump ally Steve Bannon in his contempt of Congress trial. Bannon was convicted and sentenced to four months in prison. The former Breitbart editor is appealing his conviction.

Corcoran later spearheaded Trump’s attempts to get back the documents that were turned over to the National Archives.

On Friday, Trump’s legal team reportedly turned over to Justice Department investigators an envelope containing classified markings that was found at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

The material contained in the envelope had also been electronically copied onto a laptop computer and USB stick belonging to an assistant who works for Save America PAC. That laptop and USB stick are now in the hands of the government, ABC News reported on Friday.

The envelope was discovered by Trump aides in January while they were searching the resort for more classified documents to comply with the Justice Department investigation. It was turned over to the feds by Trump’s attorney, James Trusty.

The material in question was found inside Mar-a-Lago and not in the storage facility that was used to house the hundreds of documents that were seized by investigators in August 2022.

In a statement to ABC News, Trump’s team maintained its stance that the investigations are “politically motivated” and a “witch hunt” designed to hurt his chances of winning the presidency in 2024.

The statement jokingly referred to the Department of Justice as the “Department of Injustice” and went on to redundantly call the investigation a “phony hoax.”

The development comes hours after it was revealed that the FBI found more classified documents at Mike Pence’s Indiana home, adding to material discovered by his own team earlier.

Pence adviser Devin O’Malley said the Justice Department completed a five-hour search and found at least one more file with classified marks following a “consensual search of his residence” on Friday.

O’Malley said in a statement that the Justice Department “completed a comprehensive, unrestricted five-hour search and removed one document with classified marks and an additional six pages without such marks that were not discovered in the initial review by the vice president’s attorney.” “.

“The Vice President has directed his legal team to continue to cooperate with the proper authorities and to be fully transparent in the conclusion of this matter,” he continued. The search came hours after it was revealed that Pence had been subpoenaed by special counsel Smith.

Following that subpoena, Trump called Pence “an honorable man” on social media.

Last month, Pence’s lawyers revealed that a “small number” of documents with classified marks were discovered in the former vice president’s home. More were found on Friday.