Trump's only way out is to convince a jury he was lying about having Iran doc: Andrew McCabe
Former President Donald Trump is trapped and left with few options on how to defend himself from Espionage Act charges in light of the audio tape of him bragging about improperly holding classified information to patrons at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey.
In fact, argued former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on CNN, Trump's only defense might be to tell the jury that he was lying in that tape — a strategy that would mark him for the jury as hard to trust by definition.
"The former president is claiming the papers we hear and him looking for are articles," said anchor Anderson Cooper. "Not only does that not align with the words he is using on the tape about being secret, highly classified, but there are witnesses in the room. How likely is it that Jack Smith talked to others in the room?"...