Trump lawyer may have inadvertently revealed grand jury info: legal expert

A lawyer and ally of President Donald Trump may have revealed secret grand jury information while speaking to a far-right commentator, according to one legal expert.

Mike Davis, who founded the Trump-focused Article III Project, bragged that his "good friend" was a U.S. attorney and that he'd called for a special grand jury in South Florida.

"My good friend Jason Quiñones got confirmed as the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida and Miami," said Davis. "There's now a special grand jury that Jason just motioned the court and the Southern District of Florida to open in Fort Pierce, that's going to be impaneled in January. I think that sounds like a great place to open up this grand jury on Crossfire Hurricane."

Davis bragged that he'd been calling for a criminal probe linking the Russia probe, Jan. 6, the classified documents scandal and even Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro defying a congressional subpoena all into one bucket of the same issue that he thinks should be tried in Florida.

The problem, however, is that Davis just revealed information about a grand jury that he got from a U.S. Attorney. Grand juries are secret by law. Davis received his law degree from the University of Iowa in 2004; a local profile from 2019 cited. While he should have known that grand juries are secret, it's his friend, Mr. Quiñones, who may have violated the grand jury secrecy laws.

After playing the clip, former prosecutor and ex-FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann pointed out that key fact along with other problems in Davis's short statement.

"So, let's leave aside that this may be a violation of the grand jury secrecy. Like, how he knows that there's a grand jury that's been impaneled is not something that I think is supposed to be given to somebody who's not in law enforcement. But leave that aside," said Weissmann.

He cut the problems into three pieces: First, the Russia probe spearheaded by special counsel Robert Mueller.

His "investigation led toinnumerable cases where peoplewere convicted either becausethey pleaded guilty or becausethey were found guilty by ajury," said Weissmann before moving on to talk about the attack on the U.S. Capitol. "January 6th led tohundreds and hundreds ofconvictions, again, eitherbecause people pled guilty orbecause they were found guilty. And that's in front of judges who are appointed by Democrats and Republicans, including judges who are appointed by Donald Trump."

Finally, the classified documents case, Weissmann said, "was approved —the searchwas approved by a judge. Therewas ample evidence. Even Judge Cannon rejected a motion thatthis was somehow improper andvindictive. And, so, it's hard tosee how this is going to getoff the ground when you havethat record of this isn't justthe Biden administration orprosecutors saying it, but youhave juries and judges blessingeach step of this."