Legal expert has questions about Trump's Mar-a-Lago pool incident

New reporting indicates that last year, a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago flooded a room full of security servers while draining a pool, which has attracted the suspicion of prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith on the classified documents case — and while there was reportedly no damage to the servers, it has triggered questions about whether it was an accident or an intentional effort to destroy evidence.

Speaking to CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Monday, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig outlined what he would want to know about the pool incident if he were investigating this case.

"Prosecutors — I'm just curious, what would they have to prove — what would they have to do, I guess, in order to prove there was sabotage with this pool incident?" asked Camerota.

"Okay, in order for this to mean anything to prosecutors, they'd have to prove this was intentional, as opposed to an accident," said Honig. "I would sit with a bunch of questions I have, maybe these are more from our experience with pools than that as a prosecutor, right?"

"How often are they draining this pool?" asked Honig. "Is it a scheduled or not scheduled maintenance? How often did it end up that pool engineering would drain away from sensitive areas, and not into areas where servers are? And what you are also looking for is any sort of testimony or statement showing that somebody said, hey get down there, let the pool loose, let's see where it goes, that kind of thing. That's where they seized the phones which they are surely analyzing."

Trump has maintained that he did nothing wrong and has the unlimited right to declassify documents, even without telling anyone or going through any sort of formalized channel — despite audio evidence he in fact doesn't really believe this.

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