So, Donald Trump thinks it would be a good idea to take documents he stole from the White House -- that would be the Mar-a-Lago documents -- and trade them for documents he covets about his ties to Russia. Of course it didn't happen, but Trump tried to make it work.
"You cannot steal something to barter," said former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks. "It does go back to what happened in Ukraine where he was trying to say, okay, I'll give you what you're legally entitled to, the funding, if you this terrible thing for me and make something up about Joe Biden. That is not how America is supposed to be doing business. That is illegal in every aspect."
Legal experts are suggesting Trump will surely be indicted for this maneuver. No, you can't trade stolen documents for other documents that might also be incriminating. Call it a bribe, obstruction of justice, or extortion, but do not let the former president get away with it.
"He's not entitled to engage in a back-and-forth court to get materials he wants but is not entitled to," said former U.S. attorney Joyce White Vance. "This deserves the highest level of scrutiny from the Justice Department and, increasingly it's more of an issue of when, not if, there will be a prosecution.
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