Donald Trump is due to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday Photo: George Walker IV/AP
Top Secret Documents Donald Trump Keeps at his Mar-a-Lago resort was just a “souvenir”, as one of his lawyers put it, as his legal team began formulating their defense.
Alina Khabba insisted that he did nothing wrong and did not will sue. agreement to reduce a possible prison sentence.
Mr. Trump is due to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday to face 37 charges, including violations of the Espionage Act.
“He'll never plead guilty because there's nothing wrong with declassifying documents,” she told Fox News on Sunday, offering a possible window into Trump's camp trial plans.
“He has every right to have classified documents , which he declassified… things that are souvenirs, things that he has the right to take.
“So if I'm a person with documents that I have the right to be a president who left the White House, I want to Am I to have people rummaging through my personal belongings? No.
This comes after Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr warned that if even half of the indictment is true, ” then it's over.”
“Yes, he was a victim in the past. Yes, his opponents obsessively pursued him with false claims, and I was at his side, protecting him from them when he became a victim.”
The former president responded to Mr. Barr in a radio interview with a supporter of Roger Stone.< /p>
“It's a shame, and pretty much everyone except poor people like Bill Barr, whom I, as you know, fired because he was weak-willed, he wouldn't do what you should do, but everyone says it's a shameful accusation. It shouldn't happen,” he said.
Fears of political violence
This came after Trump's hardliners vehemently defended the former president, resurrecting fear of political violence if convicted.“If you want to get to President Trump, you have to go through me, and you have to go through 75 million Americans like me,” said Kari Lake, a powerful Republican who lost her race for governor of Arizona.
“And I want to tell you that most of us are full members of the NRA (National Rifle Association),” she added.
Christopher Galdieri is professor of political science at St. Anselm's College in New York. Hampshire told The Telegraph that the potential for violence cannot be discounted.
“I think we should take it seriously.
“I think Kari Lake is overestimating the number of Americans who will take up arms, but there will certainly be those who are willing.”
“You never heard this from the supporters of Ronald Reagan, who won 49 states when he was re-elected. You hear it from people who can't achieve their goals any other way.”
Trump is ahead of DeSantis
The latest polls show that the indictment did not damage Trump's reputation among Republican voters.
A CBS-YouGov poll showed that he remains well ahead of his main rival in the nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, with 61% of Republicans said they would support him in the primaries.
But among voters overall, the picture was less encouraging, with 48% saying it was right to indict the former president, even if 47% said the indictment was politically motivated.
The Morning Consult poll also showed Mr Trump, and Mr. DeSantis are narrowly behind Joe Biden in the presidential election.
The indictment, brought by Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, deepens a split in the already divided Republican Party. GOP supporters lined up on both sides to defend or attack the former president on Sunday.
Lindsey Graham, senator from South Carolina, called the allegations “ridiculous.”
“We live in a world where it takes four years to investigate Hunter Biden, and you can go after Donald Trump in about 18 months,” he said. .
“I think Donald Trump is politically stronger today than he was before.”
And Jim Jordan, Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that as President Trump has the right to classify or declassify whatever he wants.
“He can express it. wherever he wants, he can handle it however he wants,” he told CNN on Sunday.
Asa Hutchinson, the Republican presidential candidate and Trump critic, disagrees. “We do not need our commander in chief in this country not to protect our national secrets,” he told CNN.
“If these allegations and probable causes are found against any military or any servant who was not named Donald Trump, they would have been indicted long ago.”
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