'Prosecutors don’t believe in coincidences': former U.S. attorney on suspicious flood at Mar-a-Lago

CNN reported on Monday that a mysterious flood happened at Mar-a-Lago in October 2022 when the Justice Department was telling Donald Trump to preserve documents and the security footage at the country club.

The Washington Postreported last Tuesday on an incident with the security cameras and a member of the former president's staff.

"The employee allegedly had a conversation with an IT worker at the site about how the security cameras worked and how long images remained stored in the system," the Post reported, citing a person familiar with the investigation.

CNN explained that when the staff was draining the pool, it inadvertently flooded the room where the security footage was being kept.

"Prosecutors don’t believe in coincidences," said former U.S. Attorney Renato Mariotti. "It’s not surprising that they are very suspicious about the flooding of a room where Mar-a-Lago surveillance video logs were kept. A jury would likely be skeptical of this evidence as well."

However, a federal and state trial attorney took issue with the comment, saying that the jury might not hear the information at all unless the government can make such a case if they can't tie Trump to the incident.

Legal analysts have already suggested that Donald Trump obstructed justice by refusing to turn over the documents the first five times they were requested by the National Archives.