'Massive Win': Analyst says Trump just handed Jack Smith a legal gift

Former President Donald Trump may have just handed special counsel Jack Smith a crucial piece of evidence in an ongoing criminal case, according to a new legal analysis.

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, in a North Carolina campaign speech made a bold new claim about his defeat in the 2020 election won by President Joe Biden: that it happened.

"They beat us by a little whisker,” Trump said. “He beat us from the basement.”

The New Republic's Edith Olmsted professed herself shocked that Trump would make a statement as his election interference case returns to federal court in Washington D.C.

"Pretty much every time Trump opens his mouth, his words are admissible in court," she wrote. "Trump may have just handed Jack Smith a Massive Win."

Olmsted explained that Smith's case is predicated on the argument that Trump knew he lost the 2020 election when he tried to overturn it.

Trump may know the risk, having made a similar comment during an interview earlier this month on a podcast, then quickly moving to backtrack, Olmsted noted.

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“I did that sarcastically,” Trump said after the podcast. “I got almost 75 million votes, the most votes any sitting president has ever gotten."

Court filings show Smith apparently does not feel himself to be lacking in evidence as he plans to file this week a 180-page document outlining his case after the Supreme Court ruled Trump enjoyed partial presidential immunity and changed the legal game.

Reports show Smith has new evidence he plans to present to Judge Tanya Chutkan by Thursday.

Meanwhile, the campaign trail continues to provide Trump opportunities to testify — albeit outside the courtroom, Olmsted noted.

"Despite the obvious confusion Trump’s little joke caused, the former president has decided that 'lost by a whisker' will be part of the hot air he intends to blow on the campaign trail," she wrote. "Its meaning, like everything he says, is whatever suits him."