Trump's actions exposed in fraud trial could tank his criminal elections case: expert
Legal expert and former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann pointed to a document in Donald Trump's fraud trial that could sink him in the 2020 federal election case.
Weissmann was watching the fraud case in New York on Wednesday when he saw that Donald Trump Jr. was asked about the actions around the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. While Don. Jr. said that he didn't do much and didn't know much, one thing he did reveal is that in Jan. 15, 2021, Trump Sr. took over the trust immediately after leaving the White House. Up until that point, CFO Allen Weisselberg and Don Jr. were in charge of the trust.
The reason that could cause problems in the federal election case is that Trump maintained he won the 2020 election from November onward. He claimed that there was no reason for him to leave the White House.
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"On paper, that's what was happening during the Trump presidency. What we learned today was that a document that the New York attorney general showed to Don Jr. had the former president reasserting himself into the private business on Jan. 15, 2021. Meaning after the November election, at a time when the former president has to this day said, I really won, I am the person. There's fraud in the election. Stop the steal. Even before the inauguration of Joe Biden, within that week, he is obviously anticipating going back into the private sector. And he is reasserting himself into that trust."
Weissmann said that to him, that's evidence that special counsel Smith can cite, saying that it's consistent with what others like Gen. Mark Milley, Mark Meadows and other Trump aides have said about there being moments where Trump acknowledged he lost.
"It's very important to Jack Smith because one of the allegations with support is that the former president actually knew he lost. This would be a good document to support that theory," closed Weissmann.
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