Trump documents probe the 'biggest criminal case in US history': former prosecutor

Former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg, who served as the deputy chief of the criminal division at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, spoke with MSNBC host Ari Melber on Wednesday's edition of The Beat about the Justice Department's thirty-seven-count indictment against former President Donald Trump.

Trump was charged last week by special counsel Jack Smith for his allegedly unlawful retention of classified documents that he brought from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach, Florida. Of the thirty-seven felonies listed in the complaint, thirty-one constitute Trump's accused violations of the Espionage Act. Trump could, in theory, spend the rest of his life in prison if he is convicted.

During her discussion with Melber, Greenberg noted the unprecedented nature of Trump's legal predicament and implied that he is making it worse for himself by ignoring the advice of his lawyers:

"In this situation, you would hope that Donald Trump is listening to his defense attorneys. But right now he doesn't have his full defense team, which begs the question of why is it so hard to get a defense attorney for what is going to be the biggest criminal case in US history, right? But lawyers don't wanna work for free. They wanna get paid. They don't wanna end up on the witness stand when a client asks them to break the law and they also don't wanna risk their law license or their liberty by actually potentially being engaging in any kind of crimes."

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