Donald Trump hasn’t done himself any favors in loudly and publicly fighting accusations he illegally swiped classified documents from the White House, with his own words likely to foil his defense, legal experts tell The Daily Beast.
hasn’t done himself any favors in loudly and publicly fighting accusations he illegally swiped classified documents from the White House, with the former president’s own words likely to foil his defense, legal experts say.
“I think of all the possible charges against Trump, the classified documents case was the easiest one to prove,” Rahmani told The Daily Beast. Trump has been all over the place while discussing classified documents—sometimes denying he had any, and other times claiming he was legally allowed to possess some. He bizarrely—wholly incorrectly—that the president can declassify material “even by thinking about it,” later adding that a president is free to declassify anything they want.
“In any case where a defendant is very vocal and giving lots of statements about an ongoing investigation, it never seems to help them, and always seems to come back to haunt them,” he told The Daily Beast, noting that the U.S. Attorney’s Office will be keeping track of anything and everything Trump said that has any bearing on the prosecution.
“If you are Merrick Garland, and you are going to take on the most politically charged prosecution in American history, you want to make sure you come correct, and make sure there are no legal or procedural landmines that you’re walking into,” Rahmani said. Trump, who has burned through numerous lawyers since leaving office, has also not always been steered in the right direction of late, according to Meyer.
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