National security attorney Bradley Moss on Friday argued that former President Donald Trump's defense in the Mar-a-Lago documents case suffered a big blow after attorney Evan Corcoran departed his legal team.
Appearing on CNN Friday, Moss explained that Corcoran's departure was so significant because it now frees him up to be a witness against his own one-time client due to the notes he took about Trump's actions that showed the former president allegedly engaging in criminal obstruction.
"The moment Evan Corcoran was compelled to testify before the grand jury, the moment he was ordered by the judge in D.C. to turn over those notes, it was almost guaranteed at some point he was going to have to leave this legal team," said Moss. "I think we all expected this would transpire at some point. I don't know why quite took so long, maybe it was the optics, they didn't want to immediately show him being shoved out the door."
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Moss then broke down what Corcoran's departure means for Trump's overall defense.
"This is just one more piece they don't have on that legal team," he said. "It's already an overmatched legal team because Donald Trump can't hold onto lawyers and now they've lost Evan Corcoran."
He then explained why Trump has no one but himself to blame for this current predicament.
"Donald Trump hates lawyers who take notes," he said. "Actually, real lawyers do take notes and it's those notes, the contemporaneous voice recordings that Evan Corcoran did that are being used against Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago case, particularly on the obstruction angle to show intent. So if Donald Trump is finally pushing him aside, that shows that they expect that their efforts to get his testimony suppressed are likely going to fail."
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