'Game over': Expert says Trump attorney just landed a 'bullseye for prosecutors'
A Donald Trump attorney provided damning evidence against the former president in the Mar-a-Lago documents case — and a legal analyst said it will almost certainly lead to a conviction once the case finally goes to trial.
ABC News reported that Trump attorney Jennifer Little told a grand jury that she "very clearly" warned the ex-president that he must comply with a federal subpoena for the classified documents he took home from the White House, and she's "absolutely" certain that he understood that failure to do so would be a "crime" — testimony that stunned CNN legal analyst Elie Honig Thursday.
"It's a bullseye for prosecutors and right down the middle of what they have to prove for obstruction of justice," Honig said.
"Let's remember that it's the federal Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, part of the indictment relates to the mishandling of classified documents, part of it relates to obstruction of justice."
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"If you're a prosecutor and you have to prove obstruction, you have to show that the defendant, in this case Donald Trump, knew he had a subpoena, knew he had to comply and intentionally did not do so, and this witness, Trump's former and, by the way, current lawyer, has told the grand jury straight up, no ambiguity, 'You have to comply, if you don't, it's a crime,' and he said, 'I got it, I understand.'"
"If the jury accepts that," Honig added, "game over, he's guilty."
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