Looks like Donald Trump just screwed up and confessed
The best advice any lawyer could give to Donald Trump right now would be to shut up before he incriminates himself further. Of course Trump appears to be surrounded by lawyers so bad that some of them are now also implicated by the Department of Justice. So naturally, Trump is doing the dumbest thing he can do right now, which is to run his mouth.
To that end, Trump is trying to push the laughable argument that the DOJ and FBI tried to make him look bad when they posted a photograph of clearly-labeled top secret documents that they’d found in a carton alongside some of his personal effects. Trump’s argument is that the Feds strewed the items around to make Trump look disorganized, or something. The trouble? Well, see if you can spot it:
Trump's admission that the classified material was "in cartons" at his residence is evidence of his guilt.
It would be like a defendant taking issue with a FBI photo showing bricks of cocaine on the floor of his residence instead of "in cartons." It admits possession. https://t.co/Sx9E6dCGPA
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) August 31, 2022
That’s right, in his attempt at seizing control of the narrative, it looks like Donald Trump just screwed up and confessed. By stating that he had the classified documents in cartons, he’s admitting that he knew he had classified documents in his possession. This may seem trivial in the world of social media, but it’s the kind of thing that will help get him convicted at trial.
