Tapper: Prosecutors ‘Generally Don’t Give the Benefit of the Doubt’ When There’s ‘10 Examples of Something Happening’

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TOOBIN: “It’s a lot of evidence, to be honest, I’m just trying to figure out where things are going. You know, what’s significant about the ten incidents is that there are ten of them and they all point in the same direction. And each individual incident, there is a perhaps innocent explanation. But when you see the president over and over again trying to interfere, trying to stop, trying to stop people from cooperating, there’s a very interesting section I’m reading now about Michael Cohen, about the efforts to get him not to cooperate and then to punish him once he does cooperate with law enforcement. But again, there are explanations for each individual act by the president and his allies. It becomes harder to justify them when there are so many of them, all pointing in the same direction.”
TAPPER: “Generally speaking, I’m no legal expert, but when prosecutors have an example of ten, ten examples of something happened, they generally don’t give the benefit of the doubt to the potential subject or defendant.”