'Colossal blunder': Legal expert says 'preposterous' Trump is his own worst enemy
Former President Donald Trump doesn't know what to do now that he has been indicted on federal charges for stashing highly classified national defense information at his Mar-a-Lago resort — and is even "scared."
That's the opinion of Andrew Weissman, former lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, after having listened to the former president's disastrous interview with Bret Baier on Fox News.
"What did you hear from defendant Trump in that testimony that could be a defense in court, and what did you hear in the testimony that could be incriminating?" MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell asked Weissman on Monday evening.
"So, I'm gonna jump right to the second part because there is nothing in the first part," said Weissman. "So, I will be interested in what everyone else thinks just in terms of demeanor. It is a little striking to me that he sounds very unsure of himself and, frankly, a little scared, and he really should be. He is facing 71 felony counts in federal and state court, and may very well be facing additional charges."
"That was a thing that struck me the most, was his tone," said Weissman. "What he had to say is preposterous, so let's just start with this idea of, you know, what is he doing with the boxes and he is saying that he is taking out — and he didn't have enough time to take out personal things. So first, he has already said that everything is his — everything is personal. There's no triage that needs to be done, because according to his prior defense, everything is personal, because they are quote, 'mine.' It's an inconsistency, something that Jack Smith can easily point out. Second, people should understand when you get subpoenaed, if you don't have time to comply, if the deadline is not there, it's not like you don't have the ability to have your lawyer call up and say, you know what? I need more time or I can partially comply, but I need more time. This is what — if that was true, what you don't do is send something to the Department of Justice that says, I fully complied. Now he is saying, in spite of the fact that he said I fully complied, he's now saying, no, no, no, I just needed to take out my golf shirts."
"I mean, this is the kind of thing that Jack Smith has to be salivating over because, when you talked about him talking is the best possible thing, as E. Jean Carroll knows full well," said Weissman. "This is, you know, a colossal blunder on his part to continue down this road."
Watch the segment below or at this link.
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