there is a prosecutor who is saying the Trump tape is game over we've heard a lot from Trump
about the tape and Trump says the tape's fine the tape does nothing it was illegally leaked
we should go after whoever leaked it and also I did everything fine I did everything right and
they indicted me As Trump likes to say well actual legal professionals say that this is
a very very very bad development for the failed former president former prosecutor on new Trump
tape quote this is game over this is Andrew Weissman he says that um uh the public should
remember that uh the prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith have had the tape of trump
discussing the documents before it was publicized that they've likely interviewed everyone in the
room except for Trump himself and that it would allow prosecutors to have all accounts
of what happened while Trump was speaking this is a critical uh a fact to understand
Trump's new argument is okay I shuffled papers around but I wasn't really showing
anybody the classified classified documents I was pretending to be showing it was bravado I
have stacks of papers on my desk as Andrew Weissman former prosecutor points out
everybody who was in the room has probably already said oh I saw what it was and if indeed it was
a plan to attack Iran from General mark milley that's already in evidence and that's going to be
a real problem for Donald Trump uh Weissman goes on to tell Lawrence O'Donnell quote so the big
picture here I think for people is this is game over if you were following the facts and the law
um again on the recording Trump heard discussing classified information about a potential plant
attack on Iran Weissman says Trump isn't charged with dissemination of National Defense information
only that he continued to possess it but that could be proven and the tape is absolutely clear
that's another really important question very often when defendants or their lawyers attempt
to try cases in the media first for public opinion benefit they will make arguments in defense of
themselves or their clients that aren't actually related to what you have been charged with
Trump's argument I didn't really show anybody that particular document is not a defense to what Trump
has been charged with it's sort of like if you say hey uh DUI we're charging with DUI and I go
I didn't have any stolen property in the car I had everything that was in the car was my own it was
my phone and it was my you know whatever well fine but you're charged with DUI not with having stolen
stuff in the car and that is essentially what is happening Happening Here uh Andrew Weissman going
on to say quote this is a question now of Simply will the government get a trial before the general
election will a jury actually follow the law and the facts and will the electorate follow the
facts and care that's what this is really about uh absolutely correct Weissman added that the tape is
only one piece of a massive mountain of evidence against Trump trump claimed after the tape was
publicized that it exonerates him but it appears to show him recognizing how the classification
process works and that he was continuing to hold on to uh National Defense information I will say
we've heard these announcements of Trump's inevitable demise many times before and I
agree that this is different we now have multiple arrests possibly a third and fourth arrest coming
we have a mountain of evidence we have pictures trumps toilets surrounded by documents it's it's
unbelievable stuff we've never seen anything like this in American history that being said
I like to err on the side of caution and so I am not making any premature announcements of
Trump's demise I've learned enough times not to do that but yes the tape is really really
really bad and uh I can only imagine that there will be some people around Trump
actually saying you don't want to go to trial with this you actually should take a plea deal
whether anybody's going to be able to convince Donald Trump to do that that's
a different question and I certainly can't answer at this point that the answer is yes