Jack Smith's target letter suggests charges 'a lot more extensive' than I expected: former Trump lawyer
Former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore appeared on CNN Wednesday to break down the significance of special counsel Jack Smith's target letter to the former president.
One particularly intriguing exchange came when host Phil Mattingly asked Parlatore if he and other Trump lawyers had ever anticipated Smith potentially leveling a charge related to deprivation of civil rights as they prepared their defenses.
The one-time Trump lawyer said that such a potential charge never came up.
"We were looking at it from the perspective in an obstruction or fraud count, where they would have to show the corrupt intent, that he knew there was no fraud, that he knew that the election results were accurate," he explained. "But going a civil rights route, I think, gets them into a lot more granular detail of kind of reexamining every single little claim of potential fraud and really relitigating, you know, the results of the election... within this trial. So that's a lot more extensive than I would have expected."
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Parlatore argued that, to be successful, prosecutors would have to zero in on whether Trump had realized, by January 5th, 2021, that he had legitimately lost the election.
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