Federal prosecutors charged the former president on three new counts in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case this week.
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti said the Department of Justice's latest evidence in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case may be difficult for the jury to ignore.
He continued that while Trump's attorneys will likely invoke the Presidential Records Act, which Trump has said granted him authority to keep those documents, in their defense of the former president, prosecutors may have an easier time convincing the jury on the obstruction charges. "You can say what you want about the Presidential Records Act or about declassification, but the The bottom line is destroying evidence, that's the sort of thing that the average person could get their head around. So that's really important," he said.
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