'Where did he go to law school?' Lindsey Graham's Trump stolen docs defense dismantled by prosecutor
Reacting to Sen. Lindsey Graham's attempt to dismiss the charges filed by special counsel Jack Smith against Donald Trump based upon the Espionage Act, one Florida prosecutor questioned the South Carolina Republican's grasp of the statute and his legal acumen.
Appearing on MSNBC with host Ayman Mohyeldin, Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg slapped aside Graham's defense of Trump who is now under the cloud of a 37-count federal indictment in a Florida courtroom.
"It's crazy to see, Dave, that Republicans are running to Trump's defense and making all kinds of excuses," the MSNBC host prompted. "They are saying that, although he is charged with the Espionage Act, he is not actually accused of spying or hurting the United States. That's how low the bar has become for Republicans."
"Amen," attorney Aronberg laughed. "It's also important to know that Donald Trump is not being charged with the documents that he kept that he gave back. So, the charges are all of the stuff that he refused to give back. So, that's why they didn't charge Mike Pence."
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"In the indictment, they let him [Trump] go, they let him slide on all of the documents he eventually gave back at their request," he continued. "And for those people like Lindsey Graham who said the Espionage Act is for spies: where did you go to law school? Because he obviously did not read the statute."
"The statute is much broader than spying," he elaborated. "It is the willful retention of documents and it's also the dissemination of the information, which hasn't been charged yet. But that's what Jack Smith could eventually charge in New Jersey because that's where the dissemination allegedly occurred at Bedminster."
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