Why federal prosecutors may have handed Trump a huge gift
b'Timothy Parlatore spent over a year working for Donald Trump on a number of legal challenges, including the Department of Justice\\u2019s probe into Trump\\u2019s role in Jan. 6 and the investigation of all those documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago.\\n\\nParlatore was inside the secret grand jury room in Washington. He oversaw the search for documents in Bedminster. He coordinated the former president\\u2019s response to Jack Smith\\u2019s subpoena for the national security files that eventually landed Trump in so much trouble.\\n\\nAnd then, in May, after a long-running internal fight with one of Trump\\u2019s top aides, Parlatore quit. \\n\\nSince then, you may have seen him on cable TV talking about why he left the Trump team and offering his insights about the case. But he hasn\\u2019t sat down for an in-depth interview like the one you\\u2019re about to hear. \\n\\nParlatore came by Politico\\u2019s offices in Arlington and spent the afternoon talking to Playbook co-author and Deep Dive host Ryan Lizza about why he became a criminal defense attorney in the first place, the moral dilemmas he\\u2019s faced representing people who he knew were guilty. And, most important, what it was like being on the inside of Trump\\u2019s legal team as Jack Smith and his prosecutors closed in.'