Looks like there are more problems with that indictment from Special Counsel Jack Smith, even as it just getting started with the arraignment of former President Donald Trump on Thursday.
Parlatore thinks the Special Counsel may not have reviewed records before indicting Trump because he thinks those materials are exculpatory.
In an Aug. 2 email to Parlatore, reviewed by CBS News, a special counsel's office prosecutor requested "Responsive documents as to which the Trump campaign is no longer asserting a privilege," referring to the Kerik records Parlatore said he previously provided.
Parlatore said the "Records are absolutely exculpatory." "They bear directly on the essential element of whether Rudy Giuliani, and therefore Donald Trump, knew that their claims of election fraud were false," Parlatore said.
"Good- faith reliance upon claims of fraud, even if they later turn out to be false, is very different from pushing fraud claims that you know to be false at the time." Parlatore used to work for Trump but left in May. But if those materials are exculpatory and Smith proceeded anyway, that doesn't say a lot about his case or his process.
If Trump is pursuing all these efforts to prove fraud, it does tend to show he has an honestly held belief.
Some now believe after all the flurry of lawfare, that this isn't so much about obtaining a conviction against Donald Trump as much as it is about taking up Trump's time and money to defend the endless actions.
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