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‘Game over,’ according to an expert, since Trump’s attorney has hit a ‘bullseye for prosecutors.’
A Donald Trump’s attorney presented damaging evidence against the former president in the Mar-a-Lago papers case, and a legal analyst believes it will almost surely result in a conviction when the case is ultimately tried.
According to ABC News, Trump attorney Jennifer Little testified before a grand jury that she “very clearly” warned the ex-president that he must comply with a federal subpoena for the classified documents he took home from the White House and that she’s “absolutely” certain he understood that failure to do so would be a “crime” — testimony that stunned CNN legal analyst Elie Honig Thursday.
“It’s a bullseye for prosecutors and right down the middle of what they have to prove for obstruction of justice,” Honig told reporters.
“Recall that this is the federal Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and part of the indictment relates to mishandling of classified documents, and part of it relates to obstruction of justice.”
“If you’re a prosecutor and you have to prove obstruction, you have to show that the defendant, in this case Donald Trump, knew he had a subpoena, knew he had to comply and intentionally did not do so, and this witness, Trump’s former and, by the way, current lawyer, has told the grand jury straight up, no ambiguity, ‘You have to comply, if you don’t, it’s a crime,’ and he said, ‘I got it, I understand.'”
“If the jury accepts that,” Honig went on to say, “game over, he’s guilty.”
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