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Harvard Law Professor Explains Why A Trump Indictment In D.C. Would Hold Extra Peril

Laurence Tribe warned that the former president is facing an attorney general who will "leave no stone unturned."
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Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe explained on Tuesday why the selection of which federal jurisdiction might prosecute Donald Trump for taking classified government documents could signal the former president’s legal peril.

Tribe, appearing on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” said if Attorney General Merrick Garland indicts Trump in Washington, D.C., (where the documents were taken from) and not Florida (from where they were seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate), then he could add charges of insurrection and seditious conspiracy, stemming from Trump’s incitement of the Capitol riot.

Tribe predicted that Garland, his former research assistant, would leave “no stone unturned” to build a watertight case and would indict Trump at some point. Garland’s extreme thoroughness, he added, could delay the charges.

“This will be an indictment that is absolutely over the top,” Tribe predicted. 

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