Why would Trump delay Mar-a-Lago documents case if he believes it's BS?

Over the weekend, Donald Trump told his supporters that the charges against him were "bulls---," but former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal thinks that the claim is "BS" itself.

Speaking with legal expert Bradley Moss on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell program on Monday, Katyal explained that the only thing that is "BS" is Trump's defense.

"Those who have had the privilege of handling national security information, as I have, I served as national security adviser of the Justice Department, this is incredibly serious," he explained. "People risk their lives to generate this information, both American spies, intelligence, as well as our allies. The idea that you can be cavalier about it and keep it in your social club is just so antithetical to anyone who works in the space."

He said that the party doesn't matter in cases like this; what matters is the safety and security of the United States and its people. Trump put that at risk, he argued.

"And then, to be asked for this, with a grand jury subpoena and then to go through moving the boxes around afterward, and hiding the documents, and sending your lawyer out to say everything has been turned over when it turned out it had not, and you needed to have an FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago to find 100 plus new classified documents, that is just a whole new level of criminal wrongdoing," he explained. "And there's no way our legal system can tolerate anyone. I don't care if there are Republicans or Democrats or the best president since Abraham Lincoln. They just can't do it. It is an open-and-shut criminal case. Trump is going to use every distraction tool he has available to him, and he has many. But at the end of the day, it's going to be a jury of 12 people and a simple question, did you break the law or not? The law is as clear as day, every day of the week."

Other legal experts have predicted that Trump will use every possible option at his disposal to delay the trial because it's what he has done in the past.

"This is why when Trump calls the case against him BS, it is obvious what the BS actually is there," he continued. "Because if Trump is really convinced the case is BS, why would you delay? Bring it on. You are a criminal defendant in the most criminal defendant-friendly jurisdiction on the planet. The prosecution, Jack Smith, has to convince all 12 jurors that Trump broke the law. Anyone juror can say, 'I don't think so,' and then Trump cannot be convicted."

Yet with all of the cards stacked in his favor, Katyal said, Trump is working to delay.

"That is not the way you behave if you are convinced the case against you is BS," he concluded.

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