A newly-released clip of Donald Trump boasting to author and ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl will likely be “highly valuable evidence for the prosecution,” according to CNN legal experts and will likely wind up in “the trial.” Presumably that refers to Jack Smith’s federal January 6th case but I could see repercussions in Georgia's election interference case, too.
In typical Trump-narcissistic fashion, his primary thought was to boast about the crowd size and to whine that the media didn’t properly note it.
TRUMP: But if you look at the real size of that crowd, it was never reported correctly. There were – it’s the biggest crowd I've ever spoken in front of by far, really by far. That went down to the Washington, that went back to the Washington Monument.
But then, in a stupid effort to blame the Secret Service for the violence and mayhem, Trump wound up incriminating his own self.
KARL: You told them you were going to go up to the Capitol. Were you just –