re: #278 lawhawk

The urge to throw the literal book at Trump (all charges in Title 18 of the US Code) is tempered by the fact that Smith needs to take into account what a jury might do. You don’t want to overload the jury with charges; you want to get convictions and guilty verdicts, and if you throw too many charges you get the possibility of confusion and charges overlapping may add to the confusion.

So, you get fewer charges, but ones that are more likely to result in conviction.

That you’ve got Smith adding these charges to the documents case shows just how bad things are for Trump, because Smith knows that he can pile on and has the confidence that the evidence is beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump committed all these felonies.

The next set of federal indictments will also reflect this.

someone agrees

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb said the evidence against the former president over his handling of classified documents was now “overwhelming” and would “last an antiquity”, after new charges were filed in the case on Thursday, The Guardian reports.

Said Cobb: “I think this original indictment was engineered to last a thousand years and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity. This is such a tight case, the evidence is so overwhelming.”