Some of the legal analysts and allies who have defended former President Donald Trump through multiple brushes with law enforcement are warning that the federal charges against him in the classified documents case pose a serious threat.
Trump’s indictment last week on 37 counts of criminal activity drew cries of unfair treatment from many of the former president’s supporters, nearly all of whom argued that Trump had been targeted for conduct that the Justice Department ignored in other cases.But the most recent case puts Trump in far graver legal peril, some commentators have said, than previous investigations of ties to Russia or hush money payments to a former porn star.
He also said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Trump in April on charges related to payments he sent to Stormy Daniels, a woman who claimed to have had an affair with Trump, was “an abuse of prosecutorial power.” Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton had dismissed the Bragg indictment as partisan when the Manhattan prosecutor unveiled those charges against Trump.
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University who has been highly critical of the Justice Department’s treatment of Trump in the past, said the former president could spend the rest of his life in prison if the Biden administration is able to prove what it alleges in the indictment.
While Dershowitz, generally a Trump ally, said special counsel Jack Smith, who led the classified documents investigation, likely did oversee an investigation that was more aggressive than necessary, Trump put himself in a vulnerable position.
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