Trump On Why He Held Onto Some Boxes In Docs Case: ‘I Don’t Want To Hand That Over To NARA Yet’ | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    Former President Trump defended his alleged retention of classified national defense documents during an interview this week, saying that "every good lawyer" agrees with his assertion that he did nothing wrong.

    Trump made the remarks during a Fox News interview that aired on Monday evening with anchor Bret Baier.

    "The only way NARA could ever get this stuff, this back would be [to say], 'Please, please, please could we have it back,'" Trump said.

    When asked by Baier why he did not just give everything back, which could have prevented his facing any criminal charges, Trump responded, "Because I had boxes."

    "I want to go through the boxes and get my personal things out," he said. "I don't want to hand that over to NARA yet. And I was very busy as you've sort of seen."

    Trump later brought up that his vice president, Mike Pence, also had classified documents, though Baier noted Pence immediately turned them over to authorities.

    "No, he didn't turn them over. He got caught," Trump claimed. "His lawyers found some documents and then he turned them over. Why did he have them? He shouldn't be saying that, because he had classified documents. And immediately they said, 'Oh, that's OK.' And I suppose it's going to be OK with Biden, too, even though he has them in Chinatown? Even though he has them in Delaware and probably 100 times more than I have?"

    When Baier asked Trump if he was worried about the 37 federal charges he faces, Trump responded: "Based on the law? Zero. Zero."

    "Presidential Records Act plus the Clinton case - the Clinton case which was won by Clinton as president because he took tapes of leaders in his socks. Zero," Trump responded. "Zero. And every good lawyer has said it, and you have seen that. Every good lawyer has said that."

    When Baier noted that there are many experts who have pushed backed on Trump's analysis of the situation, Trump responded: "This was a weaponization of politics. This was a weaponization of the White House. This was a horrible thing. A candidate that's leading. I'm leading Biden by a lot. They go out and they weaponize. There is a horrible thing that was done."

poll#157

Was it a judicious ploy for Joe Biden's FBI to execute the unprecedented raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate?

  Yes; the Cheneys despise this former Republican president, and for good reason ... so they say.

  No; never has a former president been treated with this level of vindictive abuse by those temporarily in power.

  Who cares? It's Trump.

932 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#173

In the face of a known scandal finally being revealed by the corrupt Legacy Media regarding Joe Biden, his Mishandling of Classified Documents and his long history of Influence Peddling to our Foreign Adversaries for Personal and Familial Profit: What do you believe the outcome will be in America's Leftist practice of a Two Tiered Justice System?

  Nothing will happen since the Democratic Socialist Left is corrupt to the core, and their non patriot ambitions are only the control of power.

  Justice WILL be served, but NOT without a tremendous fight by those willing to save the Republic.

  Why can't everyone else understand that the Left is special because we care so much for our own, especially the well being of the president and his family, especially Hunter.

  What difference does it make; I am a product of a failed public education system.

469 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

674 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?