Trump lawyer tells CNN which criminal case is 'the biggest threat' to ex-president

Donald Trump's former lawyer Tim Parlatore told CNN on Saturday that the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case represents "the biggest threat" to the former president.

Parlatore, who worked on the documents case and now continues to represent those in Trump's orbit, appeared on CNN's Newsroom with Jim Acosta, where he was asked about the network's recent reporting on the Trump team's efforts to get "fake elector" documents to D.C. Parlatore said that, while everybody he has represented and every witness that he has talked to through his time working for Trump said the elector plot was "just push for a delay," new evidence suggests things went deeper than that.

"The CNN reporting this week about, for example, Mike Roman pushing back and saying don't put that language on the other states, you know, that to me is a very incriminating thing and does tend to show that at least some people were pushing a fake elector scheme as opposed to an alternate elector scheme," he told the host.

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Parlatore was then asked which case "Trump should be most worried about in the year ahead."

"I've always considered the Mar-a-Lago case to be the most -- the biggest threat. You know, the claims in there if it can be proven about the obstruction, I think that is the case that is most likely to -- if he is convicted, to survive an appeal."

He continued:

"You know, I think that the other cases all have structural, legal, and some factual issues that would likely face a very strong attack on appeal. But on the Mar-a-Lago case, if Jack Smith can get over the hump of some prosecutorial misconduct in bringing the case, I think that's probably the one that is most likely to survive an appeal."

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