Donald Trump Audio Tape is 'Game, Set and Match' for Prosecution: Attorney
Donald Trump will be in serious legal peril if reports he was on tape admitting he had retained a classified document after he left the White House are accurate, a lawyer has said.
The issue is that the DOJ need to work around double jeopardy rules and make sure everything is perfect before they indict. Trump has extremely limited to no latitude to claim an actual legal defense, so his legal team is more likely to focus on discrediting or eliminating key evidence or testimony on technicalities.
It doesn’t matter if Trump pulls out some new evidence or gets off on a technicality, if he is found not guilty by a jury, you lose your best opportunity to prosecute him. Until there’s no chance he can get out of the net, it doesn’t make sense to show where the stakes are
Is it? The game doesn’t start until you charge the guy.
With this level of evidence, any one of us would have been charged by now and held without bail for violating the espionage act.
Donald is still golfing and holding rallies and eating Big Macs, plus we’ve seen thousands of these “we got him” articles for years now.
Trump Caught on Tape Bragging About Keeping Classified Pentagon Doc on Attacking Iran
Donald Trump knew that he couldn’t declassify documents—and now the special counsel investigating him over it has a recording of the former president admitting as much.
So we've gone from denying it to lying about it to deflecting to whatabouting it to celebrating it.
Makes me wonder, if when the story has broken, Trump had said 'yeah, I wanted them and I kept them! Top Secret documents on attacking Iran!' would his base have reacted any differently?
Can you imagine being Trumps lawyers every defense they think of gets punched full of holes before charges drop or it ever gets to the court room. Not to mention Trump lies to the lawyers putting them in danger of breaking the law themselves and then you got lawyers flipping and attacking each other.
And again... that sounds like a National Defense document, so being Classified doesn't matter! Even if he did somehow manage to completely declassify the document, it's still a national defense document, and the more serious of the what he's charged with cares about that distinction.
Following a new CNN report about an audio recording that suggests former President Donald Trump knowingly took a classified document, legal experts are saying it could be the damning evidence needed to charge him under the Espionage Act.
When I was in the Army, they told us we could get the death sentence for the stuff Trump is currently being accused of here. And that is not hyperbole.
The beauty of the Espionage Act, especially 18 U.S. Code § 793, is that the information doesn't have to be classified, only that it would cause injury to the United States in the hands of an adversary.
Properly classified information, having undergone a risk assessment, is almost prima facie evidence of potential for injury.
Failure to follow the established declassification process (i.e., "I declassified it with my mind") means there's no similar risk assessment to show the potential for injury no longer exists.
It doesn't matter whether Trump legally declassified it because it's still assumed to be potentially harmful without the declassification risk assessment.
Had he directed the DNI or DoD to declassify the documents, the review process would have had a back-and-forth discussion with some passages inevitably redacted because they still had the potential for harm.
But it seems that Trump skipped that step and now potentially faces federal charges. Whoops!
He’s put our country is danger. Remember that a Chinese spy was arrested at Mar a Lago too. You know she got access to countless documents that the Chinese now have because of this fool. And you know he shared info with Putin that he shouldn’t have. He’s divided the country and blurred the lines of decent behavior in society and especially politics.
He’s the worst thing that has happened to the USA and the problems will last decades.
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