Maggie Haberman Says New Trump Bombshell ‘Significant’ Because ‘Everyone He Spoke To’ Told Him Keeping Docs Is a Crime
New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman told Wolf Blitzer that ex-President Donald Trump being warned he’d be committing a crime by ignoring a subpoena for classified documents is a “significant” development because it shows he was told this by “everyone he spoke to.”
Haberman confirmed ABC News reporting that Trump lawyer Jennifer Little has told Special Counsel Jack Smith’s grand jury on Trump’s Espionage Act violations that she made it very clear to Trump that ignoring the feds’ subpoena would be a crime.
Little told the grand jury that she had advised Trump, “You’ve got to comply.”
On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, Blitzer asked Haberman “how big a deal” this new reporting is, and Haberman placed Little’s testimony in context with other advice Trump is said to have received:
BLITZER: In the Trump classified documents case, Maggie, you’ve reported that a second Trump attorney has now told the special counsel, Jack Smith, they also warned Trump that not complying with a subpoena for the classified materials would be a crime. How big of a deal is this?
HABERMAN: Look, it’s significant in the sense that this could speak to Trump’s state of mind. It could speak to consciousness of guilt. ABC was the first to report this. We confirmed the reporting with some additional material.
The reality is that several people, several lawyers in Trump’s orbit, but including these two, Evan Corcoran and Jennifer Little, warned him that you had to comply with a subpoena. He was, you know, seeking opinions from a number of people.
He, as he often does, tries to look for someone who is going to tell him what he wants to hear. Everyone he spoke to, at least from that group, said you must comply. And we know what happened after that.
Watch above via CNN’s The Situation Room.
