Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said Friday that Donald Trump is in “really dangerous territory” legally, and that the former president may have committed “treason.”
Trump faces multiple investigations into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, his business practices and his alleged mishandling of classified government documents. The former president’s Florida residence was raided by the FBI on August 8 as agents sought to recover top secret and classified documents he had allegedly resisted turning over after leaving the White House.
In response to the raid, Trump initially floated the possibility that federal agents had planted the classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago home. He and his team, however, later pivoted to say that he had “declassified” the documents. Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Kirschner pointed out that whether or not the documents were classified doesn’t make a difference when looking at the laws the search warrant cited as having potentially been violated.
Trump in ‘Really Dangerous Territory,’ Maybe Committed ‘Treason’: Kirschner (newsweek.com)