Exclusive: 'Trump Employee 5,' who unknowingly helped move classified documents, speaks out

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23. Defendant lawyers in cases

use pretrial public statements for impeachment of a witness all the time. If you seriously don't believe that a trial will eventually take place then fine. My statement is about a trial whenever it happens in any kind of case in any state or Federal court for any defendant known to mankind for any charge known to mankind.

The defense lawyers who have represented this defendant thus far have clearly demonstrated going after any possible public statements/activities/relationships in order to claim bias etc. and file motion after motion delaying the process. Are we really seeing anything from this witness through this interview that was unknown or suspected? Not that I see. Loading boxes in the plane was something reported long ago with pictures provided for example.

So now the defense gets to run around screaming allegations that Smith is behind having the witness out there doing interviews and claiming it supports their claims of bias. persecution and politically motivated prosecution. All to the waiting arms of "I Lean" Cannon who can use this by itself or in combination with anything else to form the fig leaf for her to try to cover herself for a decision for dismissal. That dismissal would most certainly be with prejudice and Smith would then have to rely upon the 11th Circuit to overturn and remand back. It is not certain whether they would remand back to Cannon or whether Smith could withdraw the indictments and refile hoping to get a different judge etc.