'If it was me, I'd be a basket case': Veteran prosecutor stunned by seriousness of new Trump charges

Donald Trump has been indicted on multiple counts in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg said the former president should be deeply worried that he'll be convicted.

The twice-impeached, twice-indicted former president is facing a charge under the Espionage Act, as well as charges of obstruction of justice, destruction or falsification of records, conspiracy and false statements, and Rosenberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that he would be extremely nervous to be in that predicament.

"So when we think about Mr. Trump's legal woes over decades, there almost always are civil cases, often brought in state court, but they're civil cases and civil cases aren't about liberty, civil cases are about money, right?" Rosenberg said. "If you lose a civil case you tend to owe somebody else money. If you lose in a federal case you're talking about liberty, you can go to jail and for a very long time."

Trump remains innocent until proven guilty, Rosenberg said, but he said the allegations were serious, the evidence was strong and the penalties are severe.

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"If it was me on the short end of one of those it would keep me up at night," Rosenberg said. "If I was on the short end of a federal criminal trial, I would be a basket case. These are extraordinarily dangerous times, in part because of what Mr. Trump did, but there's also going to be Mr. Trump in a court of law, facing a jury of peers, who will face the consequences of what he did."

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