MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out how lawyers for Donald Trump have "stepped in it" with their use of a single word in their latest filing, an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the review of classified documents.
The anchor of "The Last Word" said that Trump's legal team made a mistake.
There is a word that means possession.
After saying in their Supreme Court appeal that this case is essentially a document storage dispute, the Trump lawyers said the Government has sought to criminalize President Trump.
He said that possession of those records is a crime.
The supreme court's website.
On the Supreme Court website, you can read the full filing.
O'Donnell said that Trump's lawyers had been avoiding the term.
The law requires that presidential records be in the government's possession while a former president has access to them, and that's true everywhere in their filing.
He said that the Trump lawyers have been trying to suggest that the former president's possession of the documents is legal. Tonight they did.
You can watch the video here.
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