Game of 'Clue': expert shows how Jack Smith built up witnesses in docs case

Special counsel Jack Smith is methodically building up a list of staffers as witnesses to provide evidence in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, much like the boardgame Clue, according to one legal expert.

And this particular slate of witnesses could be devastating to the former president, argued former federal prosecutor Shan Wu on CNN Thursday.

"Shan, these staffers were the eyes and ears of Mar-a-Lago, as we know," said anchor Wolf Blitzer. "How valuable would they be as witnesses?"

"They would be very valuable, Wolf," said Wu. "With that cast of characters, reminds me of the old board game Clue, the murder mystery. And of course the best prosecutions are presented to a jury and the fact-finders as that kind of a compelling story told by people who can testify to what they saw, what they heard, what they said."

That sort of evidence would be the perfect foil to the former president's current legal strategy, Wu argued.

"So a lot of Trump's defense wants to really focus on more legal esoteric arguments, what was the scope of his authority, for example, to classify, declassify," said Wu. "But these folks are the eyes and ears on the ground ... they really will supply the details of how those documents really were being treated."

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