Justice correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal asked on Saturday exactly what ex-president Donald Trump has to do to end up in jail after Friday’s release of the redacted affidavit that lead to the Mar-a-Lago raid search warrant.

Guest host Dr. Jason Johnson asked Mystal on MSNBC’s The Cross Connection what he thinks of Trump’s legal strategy following the “bombshell release” of the affidavit.

“I mean, I can’t believe they haven’t already just started shredding everything, right?” said Mystal to start.

He then offered his “top-level” summary question about the entire situation.

“Look, Jason, my top-level, expert legal analysis of the affidavit is: Why ain’t this dude in jail?” said Mystal. “Like, what does this man have to do to go to jail?”

He pointed out that in the extensive reporting and commentary on the 15 boxes of material one can miss the detail that this was evidence leading up to the raid, rather than a product of it.

“I think one of the things that’s gotten kind of, like, messed or missed in the media narrative, following for the last 24 hours, is that these 15 boxes that we’re focused on? That’s what they already found on the man. The man alr– president sticky-fingers already stole classified documents, top secret documents,” he said. “Dude had the ‘NOC list’ from Mission Impossible sitting in his basement! Right?”

“We know about these because that was the probable cause for them to go search for more stuff that he wouldn’t turn over,” he continued. “So the NOC list is what he was willing, after two years, to give back. We had to go raid him to get the stuff that he wasn’t willing to give back.”

“How is this man free?” he rhetorically objected again.

Mystal went on to say that “people need to stop be-clowning themselves by defending” Trump when there is “no legal defense” for it, and that he can be prosecuted on charges that carry penalties of up to ten years in prison.

Watch the clip above, via MSNBC.

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