Former Trump lawyer compares classified documents case to Hillary Clinton’s emails

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Former Trump lawyer compares classified documents case to Hillary Clinton’s emails
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Timothy Parlatore, who recently left Trump’s legal team, predicts the former president might not be prosecuted over his handling of classified documents.

Trump’s legal team last month over irreconcilable differences with other lawyers on the team, has been a vocal critic of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president’s retention of classified documents. Even as he announced that he was leaving Trump's legal team, he maintained in a statement his position that “the DOJ is acting improperly.”

His remarks on Sunday come as Smith's investigation into Trump — which focuses on his alleged mishandling of more than 100 classified documents that were discovered at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last year — appears to be approaching an end.The federal grand jury in the case that has been hearing evidence in the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump’s handling of classified documents isthis coming week in Washington, multiple people familiar with the probe told NBC News.

Prosecutors working for Smith have been presenting the grand jury with evidence and witness testimony for months, but activity appeared to have slowed in recent weeks based on observations at the courthouse and sources. It’s unclear whether prosecutors are prepared to seek an indictment at this point.last year that they found 184 unique documents that had classification markings in the 15 boxes that Trump returned to the National Archives in January.

The affidavit stated that 25 documents were marked as “TOP SECRET,” 67 documents marked as “confidential” and 92 marked “secret.” That then led to the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago by FBI agents who recovered a trove of top secret and other highly classified documents,Trump has denied any wrongdoing in the case and allegations that he mishandled classified documents. He claimed last year that he can declassify documents “

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