Former President Donald Trump may not face charges over his handling of classified documents, according to one of his former attorneys.
During a June 4 interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Timothy Parlatore said he would be “not at all” surprised if special counsel Jack Smith were to decline to prosecute the case.
“You have to evaluate every case based on what are the facts and the law and is it something that’s provable,” Parlatore said.
“From a discretion point of view, is this something where a prosecution makes sense? Is it something where it is a slam-dunk case, where some of these things could be interpreted a few different ways?” he said. “And also, when it comes to a specific issue like this where we are talking about potentially national defense information, is it the type of thing where they want to declassify these things, if they haven’t already been declassified, and put them out publicly?”…