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Tatyana Tandanpolie

Legal expert ridicules new Trump scheme

Former President Donald Trump vowed to testify under oath about the allegation that he tried to have evidence in his classified documents case deleted — a courtroom maneuver one legal expert panned as "extraordinarily dangerous."

In a Friday preview of his forthcoming interview with new "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker, the former president took aim at special counsel Jack Smith, who in July filed three additional charges against Trump in the case, including two new obstruction counts based on allegations that his two co-defendants attempted to scrub surveillance video at Mar-a-Lago. When Welker asked about one of the new charges, Trump vehemently denied the allegation as "false" and said he'd testify under oath that it was.

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