Former President Donald Trump, who is facing multiple investigations into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and his mishandling of classified government documents, is in “really dangerous territory” legally and may even be indicted for “treason,” former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said during an interview on MSNBC.
Earlier this month, FBI agents raided Trump’s Mar-a_lago residency and seized several boxes of top secret and classified documents that he had resisted turning over after leaving the White House.
In response to the raid, Trump initially accused the FBI of planting the classified materials at his home. But later he pivoted to say that he had “declassified” the documents.
But 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.
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“Importantly, none of those three crimes require that the documents be classified,” Kirschner told MSNBC on Friday, according to Newsweek. “So Donald Trump forever carping about, ‘I thought these things were declassified,’ and so magically they were—that’s not a defense. It doesn’t matter,” the legal analyst added.
“This is some really dangerous territory for Donald Trump,” he explained before reminding viewers that the ex-president “launched an armed attack on the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.”
“Let’s not forget about that little crime that may actually amount to treason,” he added.
Kirschner’s remark about an “armed attack” was a reference to January 6, 2021, when hundreds of Trump’s supporters violently rioted at the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
