Amid the lies and distortions littered across his sprawling “Meet the Press” interview, the former president latched on to an argument that doesn’t help him.
It came during discussion of his classified documents and obstruction case, one of four criminal prosecutions the Republican faces as he runs for president again. Asking Trump about one of the charges in that, “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker said it “suggests you asked a staffer to delete security camera footage so it wouldn’t get into the hands of investigators. Did you do that?”
In addition to denying doing that, Trump said that “more importantly, the tapes weren’t deleted.” Showing this wasn’t an idle thought, the former president soon followed up with: “Much more importantly, when the tapes came, and everybody says this, they weren’t deleted.”thing to keep in mind about this allegation — which represents only part of this federal case against Trump — is that prosecutors don’t need to show that the tapes were deleted. That’s probably whydoesn’t allege they were.
That is, the law punishes attempts, even unsuccessful ones. To that end, there’s a section in the superseding indictment literally titled “The Attempt to Delete Security Camera Footage.” So, Trump’s argument that the footage wasn’t deleted isn’t much of an argument at all. And even if it’s true that it wasn’t deleted, that could just show a bungled crime rather than the absence of a crime. In any event, Trump may want to sharpen this defense ahead of his scheduled May trial in Florida.
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