Jack Smith's new trial tactic of possibly putting Mar-a-Lago employees on the stand against former President Donald Trump could implode as witnesses sometimes 'blow up' when testifying, according to legal analyst Norm Eisen.Smith is a Department of Justice special counsel in charge of prosecuting Trump for both the classified documents case and the former president's Washington, D.C., indictment for allegedly interfering in the 2020 election.
'McQuade concluded, 'Putting them on the stand blind would violate the first rule of witness testimony—never ask a witness a question to which you do not know the answer.'Dave Aronberg, state attorney for Palm Beach County, where Mar-a-Lago is located, also told Newsweek on Friday, 'These witnesses can be quite powerful because they saw things as insiders and have no axe to grind, no political bias and no financial reason to make up stuff about the boss.
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