Donald Trump Giving Prosecutors Evidence of His Guilt: Kirschner

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Former President Donald Trump’s recent attempt to defend himself in the Mar-a-Lago documents case provides “further evidence” of his consciousness of guilt, a former federal prosecutor said Wednesday.

Trump is facing a criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago residence in the summer of 2022. Prosecutor Jack Smith has been appointed to act as special counsel in the investigation, also for another probe looking at the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing regarding the documents and has not been charged.

In several posts on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, Trump denounced the investigation of the documents and reiterated his innocence. He wrote that during his presidential administration, folders marked as “classified” or “confidential” containing papers would be distributed to him and others on several occasions.

“When the session is over, they take the paper(s), but not the folders, and I saved hundreds of them…,” Trump wrote.

Mar-a-Lago estate of former US President Donald Trump on September 14, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. In the inset, Trump speaks at an election night event at Mar-a-Lago on November 8, 2022. Trump’s recent attempt to defend his innocence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case gives of “further evidence” of his consciousness of guilt, a former federal prosecutor said Wednesday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

He added in a subsequent post that “they were just ordinary, cheap folders with different words printed on them, but they were a ‘cool’ souvenir.”

“Maybe the Gestapo took some of these empty folders when they raided Mar-a-Lago, and counted them as a document, which they weren’t,” Trump wrote in an apparent reference to the FBI , who conducted a Mar-a-Lago search in August. “It is also possible that the Trump Hating Marxist Thugs in charge will ‘plant’ documents while they are in possession of the material.”

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, who has often weighed in on Trump’s legal troubles, responded Wednesday about Trump’s Truth Social post about keeping folders marked as memorabilia.

Every new explanation that contradicts his previous BS explanations provides MORE EVIDENCE OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SIN. The only remaining obstacle to a Trump conviction is an indictment at the DOJ. https://t.co/qqbznV1cFN

— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) January 18, 2023

“Each new ‘explanation’ that contradicts his previous BS explanations provides MORE EVIDENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS,” Kirschner tweeted. “The only remaining obstacle to a Trump conviction is a DOJ indictment.”

Trump’s other attempts to explain the presence of classified material at Mar-a-Lago included saying he had a standing order to declassify documents removed from the Oval Office and brought to Mar-a-Lago. However, legal experts have cast doubt on that rationale.

Kirschner said on a Sunday episode of his Justice Matters podcast that the manner and frequency with which Trump writes his posts on Truth Social, often punctuated with capitalizations and insults against people he views as opponents, is a signal that the former president believes that he will face. charge.

“He looked desperate, he looked scared, he looked like he knew the indictments were coming and there was nothing he could do to stop them,” Kirschner said.

Newsweek has reached a spokesman for Trump for comment.

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