'Do they really have that?' Former Trump documents case attorney astonished at Mar-a-Lago evidence
Special counsel Jack Smith has an enormous amount of damning evidence in the indictment against former President Donald Trump and his top aide at Mar-a-Lago, Walt Nauta, with respect to moving around boxes of highly classified information to conceal them from not just federal authorities but from Trump's own then-attorney Evan Corcoran.
At least, that's the assessment of Tim Parlatore, another former attorney for the president, who appeared on CNN's "OutFront" alongside former White House counsel Ty Cobb, to discuss the details of the indictment with anchor Erin Burnett. Parlatore previously had defended the former president as Smith's investigation entered its final stages and charges appeared likely, but in recent days acknowledged the indictment detailed far more severe behavior than he knew was going on.
"Can I first just ask you, because you're as close to this as anyone other than Evan Corcoran," said Burnett. "When you read this part that says that Walt Nauta was moving documents and moving boxes so that Evan Corcoran, the lawyer, attorney number one, would not know it and would therefore say you have everything. Did your jaw sort of drop for a second?"
Parlatore replied that, "It was definitely different from how I understood the theory of these boxes moving to be ... something I looked at and I thought, wow, 'do they really have that?' And, full candor, I read that and I was wondering. Because if that's what they actually had, it's something that I would have expected us to know about earlier. It's something I would have expected them to use in more of the preliminary proceedings."
Burnett interjected, "They didn't?"
"No, they didn't. It's one of those things that they would've used to try and flip Walt Nauta to become a witness, but they didn't."
Watch the segment below or at this link.
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