Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY), who also served as an attorney in the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump, said that a new bombshell recording of Trump knocks down the former president's defense strategy in the Mar-a-Lago documents scandal.
Appearing on CNN shortly after the network revealed the recording, Goldman marveled about Trump bragging to guests at Mar-a-Lago that he had "secret" military information that he had not declassified.
"Every single thing Donald Trump ever said can be admitted at a trial," Goldman explained. "And so what you have here is him admitting in secret that he knows that the documents he had were not declassified and he knows that they are classified information. The difference between a criminal case and any civil case is you have to show that knowledge."
Goldman said that the recording's existence will also help differentiate Trump's handling of classified documents with the handling of classified documents by President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence.
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"That's what draws a distinction between Donald Trump's case and Joe Biden and Mike Pence, where the question here is, is it knowingly and intentionally done to maintain possession of those documents and then to refuse to give them back?" he said. "And so what he is essentially doing is neutering all of the public defenses that he made. The prosecutors will be able show his public defense and then show the recording and it will eviscerate all of the credibility of his defense."
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