By Luca Cacciatore | Tuesday, 27 June 2023 08:25 PM EDT
Francey Hakes, a former assistant United States attorney, told Newsmax that a CNN report that includes key leaked tapes of former President Donald Trump is "trial by ambush."
Appearing Tuesday on "The Record with Greta Van Susteren," Hakes criticized the leak, which was presented as to appear that Trump believed "there was nothing to declassify" in some of his sensitive files housed at Mar-a-Lago.
"Lawyers know that there's always more to a tape," Hakes explained. "There's context to the tape. There's possible editing of the tape. There's the authenticity of the tape. All of these things have to be established before they can be admitted into evidence."
"This is like trial by ambush, where you got someone who is obviously trying once again to put evidence out there before it has a chance to get into a court of law to make the president look bad."
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