Former President Donald Trump has multiple defenses available to try to beat federal criminal charges of mishandling classified documents and obstructing justice, legal scholars say.
“The government is relying on testimony from Trump’s lawyer. It doesn’t always work out when lawyers are put on the stand who cooperated against their own client. That’s just one area of potential vulnerability for the government,” Mr. Coffey continued.in the classified documents case, declined to comment on possible defenses.and his aides might have already raised the strongest defense: that a president can take any documents he wants under the Presidential Records Act.
Defense attorneys could argue that Mr. Trump’s presidential authority granted him absolute power to declassify documents. Mr.has already made that assertion. A president can take government property as personal documents once they are declassified.
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