Failed one-term, twice-impeached and recently indicted former president Donald Trump recently gave a deposition in the ongoing New York civil case brought by Empire State Attorney General Letitia James.
The civil case could result in the Trump Organization being shut down and its assets liquidated, which would be a major blow to the loser ex-president.
But the biggest threats to Trump remain on the criminal front, where he faces a trial on 34 counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan, future indictment on racketeering charges in the state of Georgia regarding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, and the ongoing investigation by a federal grand jury under the direction of Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith.
And it’s the Smith case, which involves hundreds of classified documents Trump had hidden at his Mar-a-Lago resort, that is most likely to see him doing serious prison time, according to one legal expert.
George Conway is a noted Washington, D.C. attorney who discussed the Trump legal minefield earlier today on MSNBC when asked by host Willie Geist, “George, before we let you go, the Mar-a-Lago documents case, just based on what we heard yesterday, it’s clear that the special counsel Jack Smith is able to do two things at once. Looking at January 6th and also looking at what happened down at Mar-a-Lago, how strong is your sense of the case building now against the former president there?”
Conway replied:
“Well, my sense of this case has been almost since the date of the search warrant execution at Mar-a-Lago, that this case is the shortest distance between Donald John Trump and an orange jumpsuit.”
“I still adhere to that view,” he continued. “It’s just very clear that he — I mean, if a quarter of what we’ve read is true, he obstructed justice, he was trying to avoid producing these documents. He lied to his lawyers about the status of the documents so they would, in turn, misinform the government, which is why Judge [Beryl] Howell in the District of Columbia held a crime-fraud exception, applied the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege.”
Conway then explained what it means that Trump’s own attorneys are now having to tell what they know because it’s suspected they also took part in a criminal conspiracy:
“Therefore, Trump’s lawyers are witnesses against him. If he was moving documents around himself, that he was trying to hide them so he could show them off to people, well, you know, that’s obstruction of justice, even apart from the illegal retention of the documents, which he essentially stole from the American people because he just claimed they belonged to him when they didn’t.”
Donald Trump is going to prison. The only questions are on what charges and for how long.
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