Trump indictment is only 'a fraction of the evidence the government has amassed': Maggie Haberman

Special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of former President Donald Trump drew praise for its thoroughness even from conservative legal experts such as Jonathan Turley and former Attorney General Bill Barr, who in the past have defended the former president amid numerous scandals.

And according to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, the government has a lot more damning proof that it can throw at Trump during his criminal trial.

Writing on Twitter, Haberman reveals that "the indictment, according to multiple people familiar with the case, shows a fraction of the evidence the government has amassed."

One of the biggest problems for Trump, Haberman writes, is that the government has been able to get much of its evidence from Trump's own lawyers who were forced to hand over their personal notes after special counsel Jack Smith's office successfully used the crime-fraud exception to pierce attorney-client privilege.

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Haberman notes that Trump ignored his lawyers' own advice to turn over the documents in his possession as requested by a subpoena.

"Had Trump taken the advice of lawyers and advisers urging him to do what National Archives asked for nearly a year -- return the materials -- what followed would not have happened. Instead, almost everyone around him has been thrust into either peril or drama in the case," she writes.