Defense attorneys always make one thing very clear to their clients: Don’t talk about your legal predicament with anyone. The worst thing you can do is talk, even if you’re trying to explain your actions.
Of course, disgraced one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump is physically and emotionally incapable of keeping his mouth shut and is strengthening the ongoing investigations against him with his every utterance or posting on social media.
According to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, Trump continues to help prosecutors make the case against him.
Kirschner was asked Sunday by MSNBC host Katie Phang, “We do know that Donald Trump, and you mentioned it a couple of minutes ago, he is his own worst enemy. He cannot shut up. He posted on Truth Social, for example, that these were ‘cool keepsake folders that the Gestapo, the FBI took when they raided Mar-a-Lago,’ quote.
“Does he keep on making admissions and confessions every time he opens his mouth with a post on Truth Social?”
That led Kirschner to note:
“He does, that is incriminating evidence from heaven for prosecutors. One, somebody who is the target of a criminal probe, which he clearly is, special counsel Jack Smith is investigating these precise crimes, the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
“Everything he says, everything he posts is what we call it an admission by a party opponent. It’s not hearsay, it comes in as criminal information.”
Kirschner then elaborated on his comments:
“When Donald Trump says, on the one hand, the FBI planted them, on the other hand, okay, if they are there I declassified them with my mind. On the next post, well, you know, it was a bunch of empty folders — we know that to be untrue. All of this may play to a certain segment of the base. You know who won’t play too? When prosecutors line it all up and present it to 12 people in the jury box. It’s not going to play to a jury.”
Keep talking, Donnie. You’re digging the hole you’re in even deeper.
