The indictment of former President Donald Trump on charges of mishandling classified documents is an overreach by the government, according to Paul Kamenar, counsel for the National Legal and Policy Center. Kamenar also sees the charges as a potential rallying point for Trump’s supporters.
“I think the government has overreached in this area and I think they’re going to have a hard time to prove these charges and convict Donald Trump,” Kamenar said in an interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report” on Friday.
On Friday, special counsel Jack Smith announced a 37-count indictment against Trump. The indictment includes 31 counts of “willful retention of national defense information,” as well as other counts of withholding a document or record, “corruptly” concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, conspiring to obstruct justice, scheming to conceal materials, and making false statements. The indictment also alleges Trump showed classified documents to other people on two separate occasions in 2021….