While Donald Trump’s legal team prepared to make arguments attempting to dismiss his classified documents criminal case, Trump was working on a new angle of his own.
“we weren’t hiding them!”
He says, after lying to the FBI, the national archives, and a federal judge that he never had these things in his possession, while refusing numerous opportunities to return them without consequences.
>While Donald Trump’s legal team prepared to make arguments attempting to dismiss his classified documents criminal case, Trump was working on a new angle of his own.
In a prerecorded interview that aired Wednesday, Trump effortlessly unraveled the work of his defense team, telling Newsmax’s Greg Kelly point blank that he actually did take the classified documents, describing the process of shamelessly packing them away while leaving office.
“I took ’em very legally,” Trump said. “And I wasn’t hiding them.”
“We had boxes on the front of the—and a lot of those boxes had clothing and a lot of—we were moving out, OK? Unfortunately, we were moving out of the White House. And because we’re moving out of the White House our country is going to hell.”
“But um, we weren’t hiding anything. He was,” he added, referring to President Joe Biden having kept a box with a handful of classified documents in his garage. By comparison, the FBI seized 11,000 records at Mar-a-Lago.
Oh boy, here we go again with old tweet-tweet himself, making idiotic confessions just in time for the classified docs hearing. I mean, seriously, can’t he at least wait until after the hearing to make us all cringe? It’s like he’s trying to be the class clown of the political world, but instead of getting laughs, he just gets our collective groans. And don’t even get me started on those classified documents. I bet they’d be so much more interesting than another one of his rambling, self-aggrandizing monologues.
“As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” he said at the time.” ~ 2021
““I took ’em very legally,” Trump said. “And I wasn’t hiding them.”” ~ 2024
4D Chess Right there…
Ok let’s be clear about this. Donald Trump could tell idiot Greg Kelly that he *stole* the classified documents, obstructed the FBI, and conspired to hide and then sell them to hostile foreign powers. And Cannon would still dismiss the charges.
It’s a beautiful thing when the defendant does the prosecution’s job.
“This isn’t how we rehearsed this, Mr. President. Weeks of prep work ruined!”
-Judge Cannon
The “Presidential Records Act, which they say gave him the authority to designate the documents as personal and maintain possession of them after his presidency.”
Just like a President cannot have total immunity, there is no way the Presidential Records Act allows our nation’s top secrets to be stacked up by the toilet, with a former President trying to say he declassified them, but then being caught on audio, acknowledging he held onto a classified Pentagon document.
Due to “Trump employee 5” now coming forward, we know he unknowingly helped Nauta deliver/conceal boxes of classified information from Mar-a-Lago to the former president’s plane in June 2022, the same day that Trump and his attorney were meeting with the Justice Department at Mar-a-Lago about the classified documents.
Trump has a guilty mind, he knew what he did was wrong, lied about it, concealed it, and should be held accountable. Otherwise, what the fuck are we doing.
It’s just further proof of how confident he is that this case won’t ever go to trial before the election.
> Sounds good. Case dismissed.
* Judge iLean Qanon
Love that he is easily goaded. Did anyone poke him or did he just offered this on his own?
He looks like shit…Have another big mac Donnie!
It may be idiotic but it doesn’t really matter anyway when the judge is going to guarantee him success.
It’s kind of like toddlers playing T-ball. Their batting skills really don’t matter all that much. They’re going to hit the ball regardless.
Yes, Trump is the toddler in this analogy.
One of the biggest challenges that DemenDon faces is that the dementia shifts his brain to neutral, but his mouth keeps going. Making it worse is his belief that he is the smartest man on earth and so what ever addled thought comes to him is the best idea/defense.
Cannon worships Trump. Nothing he says can incriminate him in her court. She has no intention of allowing this trial to proceed, as long as he is alive.
I keep thinking how Reality Winner did time for photocopying and mailing an article.
While he was in the WH, Trump had to defend a first amendment lawsuit over his blocking of people he didn’t like on Twitter.
His lawyers were arguing that the suit should be dismissed because his personal Twitter was just that, personal. They argued it wasn’t an official arm of the government.
Meanwhile, Trump was announcing policy on Twitter first and writing things like “let these messages serve as official notice that…”
Wouldn’t be the first time his big mouth utterly undermined what his lawyers were doing.
>Trump ~~Makes~~ Idiotic ~~Confession Just Before Key Classified Docs Hearing~~
FTFY
He confessed to that a long time ago. He thinks he was entitled to take whatever he wanted.
It fucking infuriates me to no end that this is literally the clearest case by far and yet his handpicked trump stooge is just delaying the case. Like this is the case that without a doubt would put him in jail for years and yet the judge is just like “nah, no need for a trial”
Jack Smith isn’t trying to prove Trump took the documents… it’s established that Trump took the documents. This wasn’t a “confession”.
He’s always said he took them.
What Judge Eileen Cannon is going to rule on is whether presidents are entitled to take classified military documents from the white house after they leave office.
Since Trump appointed this judge, she is very likely going to throw the case out and say Presidents can do this.
Smith will appeal and likely win and get a new judge appointed to the case, but throwing the case out now insures that no trial happens before the election.
So Trump’s hand picked judges are protecting him from facing accountability for his crimes.
The election subversion case now will not go to trial before the election because his judges on the supreme court have decided they want to hear arguments on whether a president has absolute immunity. So they’ve come through for him there.
Right now the only case that’s going to trial is the hush money case in NY where Trump illegally used campaign funds to pay a porn star to keep quiet about their affair. That’s the only chance of a conviction before the election. Out of all the illegal actions he’s taken.
And yet.
He remains.
Not.
In.
Prison.
This is an indictment of our entire justice system at this point.
How has this guy not gotten truly burned yet, fraud case and sexual assault convictions, and he just keeps going. Zero shame lol
When Cannon dismisses the charges (and that is When, not If), can they be re-filed in Florida? Or is that it?
Doesn’t matter what he says or does. Cannon is still going to do everything to delay/throw out the case.
Why are people compelled to protect this idiot?
I’m so tired of this incoherent jackass. His brain needs to melt itself FASTER.
Thought they were planted by fake FBI rino?
Didn’t he already make this same public confession some months ago?
Or was he confessing to another crime that was okay because of that whole immunity thing?
It won’t mean a damn thing if the judge is a lickspittle.
why is it that he never has to stand trial for stuff like this? As a european i certainly don`t understand why he never is convicted of anything?
It won’t matter. ™
Doesn’t matter to Federalist Society Judge Cannon.Her intention,all along has been to dismiss the case despite Traitor Trumps admitted guilt and a preponderance of evidence.Shes in his pocket and is wholly corrupted.
Just imagine what would happen to *anyone else* who said all this stuff.
“Your honor, we weren’t being secretive while we robbed the bank, we were open about it, we didn’t wear masks or anything. That’s why you should dismiss the charges!”
This is the dumbest man that has ever walked this earth. Has to be.
Cannon is throwing away her law license and her cush job if she defends this shit.
“ On Monday, one of Trump’s former Mar-a-Lago employees, Brian Butler, anonymously referred to in court documents as “Trump Employee 5,” confessed that he had been part of an orchestrated move to transport the documents out of Mar-a-Lago and to Bedminster, New Jersey, ahead of a meeting between Trump and the Justice Department in June 2022—two months before the FBI raid at the Florida estate.”
This alone requires prison. A slam dunk really.
We know they transported more boxes of the same stuff to his other residence from Mara-largo, before the FBI raid. Trump still has the good stuff.
There’s no way he could have declassified anything nuclear, because no process for declassifying them exists.
It doesn’t really matter when you appointed the judge in the case and she is going out of her way to help you.
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While Donald Trump’s legal team prepared to make arguments attempting to dismiss his classified documents criminal case, Trump was working on a new angle of his own.
“we weren’t hiding them!”
He says, after lying to the FBI, the national archives, and a federal judge that he never had these things in his possession, while refusing numerous opportunities to return them without consequences.
>While Donald Trump’s legal team prepared to make arguments attempting to dismiss his classified documents criminal case, Trump was working on a new angle of his own.
In a prerecorded interview that aired Wednesday, Trump effortlessly unraveled the work of his defense team, telling Newsmax’s Greg Kelly point blank that he actually did take the classified documents, describing the process of shamelessly packing them away while leaving office.
“I took ’em very legally,” Trump said. “And I wasn’t hiding them.”
“We had boxes on the front of the—and a lot of those boxes had clothing and a lot of—we were moving out, OK? Unfortunately, we were moving out of the White House. And because we’re moving out of the White House our country is going to hell.”
“But um, we weren’t hiding anything. He was,” he added, referring to President Joe Biden having kept a box with a handful of classified documents in his garage. By comparison, the FBI seized 11,000 records at Mar-a-Lago.
Oh boy, here we go again with old tweet-tweet himself, making idiotic confessions just in time for the classified docs hearing. I mean, seriously, can’t he at least wait until after the hearing to make us all cringe? It’s like he’s trying to be the class clown of the political world, but instead of getting laughs, he just gets our collective groans. And don’t even get me started on those classified documents. I bet they’d be so much more interesting than another one of his rambling, self-aggrandizing monologues.
“As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” he said at the time.” ~ 2021
““I took ’em very legally,” Trump said. “And I wasn’t hiding them.”” ~ 2024
4D Chess Right there…
Ok let’s be clear about this. Donald Trump could tell idiot Greg Kelly that he *stole* the classified documents, obstructed the FBI, and conspired to hide and then sell them to hostile foreign powers. And Cannon would still dismiss the charges.
It’s a beautiful thing when the defendant does the prosecution’s job.
“This isn’t how we rehearsed this, Mr. President. Weeks of prep work ruined!”
-Judge Cannon
The “Presidential Records Act, which they say gave him the authority to designate the documents as personal and maintain possession of them after his presidency.”
Just like a President cannot have total immunity, there is no way the Presidential Records Act allows our nation’s top secrets to be stacked up by the toilet, with a former President trying to say he declassified them, but then being caught on audio, acknowledging he held onto a classified Pentagon document.
Due to “Trump employee 5” now coming forward, we know he unknowingly helped Nauta deliver/conceal boxes of classified information from Mar-a-Lago to the former president’s plane in June 2022, the same day that Trump and his attorney were meeting with the Justice Department at Mar-a-Lago about the classified documents.
Trump has a guilty mind, he knew what he did was wrong, lied about it, concealed it, and should be held accountable. Otherwise, what the fuck are we doing.
It’s just further proof of how confident he is that this case won’t ever go to trial before the election.
> Sounds good. Case dismissed.
* Judge iLean Qanon
Love that he is easily goaded. Did anyone poke him or did he just offered this on his own?
He looks like shit…Have another big mac Donnie!
It may be idiotic but it doesn’t really matter anyway when the judge is going to guarantee him success.
It’s kind of like toddlers playing T-ball. Their batting skills really don’t matter all that much. They’re going to hit the ball regardless.
Yes, Trump is the toddler in this analogy.
One of the biggest challenges that DemenDon faces is that the dementia shifts his brain to neutral, but his mouth keeps going. Making it worse is his belief that he is the smartest man on earth and so what ever addled thought comes to him is the best idea/defense.
Cannon worships Trump. Nothing he says can incriminate him in her court. She has no intention of allowing this trial to proceed, as long as he is alive.
I keep thinking how Reality Winner did time for photocopying and mailing an article.
While he was in the WH, Trump had to defend a first amendment lawsuit over his blocking of people he didn’t like on Twitter.
His lawyers were arguing that the suit should be dismissed because his personal Twitter was just that, personal. They argued it wasn’t an official arm of the government.
Meanwhile, Trump was announcing policy on Twitter first and writing things like “let these messages serve as official notice that…”
Wouldn’t be the first time his big mouth utterly undermined what his lawyers were doing.
>Trump ~~Makes~~ Idiotic ~~Confession Just Before Key Classified Docs Hearing~~
FTFY
He confessed to that a long time ago. He thinks he was entitled to take whatever he wanted.
It fucking infuriates me to no end that this is literally the clearest case by far and yet his handpicked trump stooge is just delaying the case. Like this is the case that without a doubt would put him in jail for years and yet the judge is just like “nah, no need for a trial”
Jack Smith isn’t trying to prove Trump took the documents… it’s established that Trump took the documents. This wasn’t a “confession”.
He’s always said he took them.
What Judge Eileen Cannon is going to rule on is whether presidents are entitled to take classified military documents from the white house after they leave office.
Since Trump appointed this judge, she is very likely going to throw the case out and say Presidents can do this.
Smith will appeal and likely win and get a new judge appointed to the case, but throwing the case out now insures that no trial happens before the election.
So Trump’s hand picked judges are protecting him from facing accountability for his crimes.
The election subversion case now will not go to trial before the election because his judges on the supreme court have decided they want to hear arguments on whether a president has absolute immunity. So they’ve come through for him there.
Right now the only case that’s going to trial is the hush money case in NY where Trump illegally used campaign funds to pay a porn star to keep quiet about their affair. That’s the only chance of a conviction before the election. Out of all the illegal actions he’s taken.
And yet.
He remains.
Not.
In.
Prison.
This is an indictment of our entire justice system at this point.
How has this guy not gotten truly burned yet, fraud case and sexual assault convictions, and he just keeps going. Zero shame lol
When Cannon dismisses the charges (and that is When, not If), can they be re-filed in Florida? Or is that it?
Doesn’t matter what he says or does. Cannon is still going to do everything to delay/throw out the case.
Why are people compelled to protect this idiot?
I’m so tired of this incoherent jackass. His brain needs to melt itself FASTER.
Thought they were planted by fake FBI rino?
Didn’t he already make this same public confession some months ago?
Or was he confessing to another crime that was okay because of that whole immunity thing?
It won’t mean a damn thing if the judge is a lickspittle.
why is it that he never has to stand trial for stuff like this? As a european i certainly don`t understand why he never is convicted of anything?
It won’t matter. ™
Doesn’t matter to Federalist Society Judge Cannon.Her intention,all along has been to dismiss the case despite Traitor Trumps admitted guilt and a preponderance of evidence.Shes in his pocket and is wholly corrupted.
Just imagine what would happen to *anyone else* who said all this stuff.
“Your honor, we weren’t being secretive while we robbed the bank, we were open about it, we didn’t wear masks or anything. That’s why you should dismiss the charges!”
This is the dumbest man that has ever walked this earth. Has to be.
Cannon is throwing away her law license and her cush job if she defends this shit.
“ On Monday, one of Trump’s former Mar-a-Lago employees, Brian Butler, anonymously referred to in court documents as “Trump Employee 5,” confessed that he had been part of an orchestrated move to transport the documents out of Mar-a-Lago and to Bedminster, New Jersey, ahead of a meeting between Trump and the Justice Department in June 2022—two months before the FBI raid at the Florida estate.”
This alone requires prison. A slam dunk really.
We know they transported more boxes of the same stuff to his other residence from Mara-largo, before the FBI raid. Trump still has the good stuff.
There’s no way he could have declassified anything nuclear, because no process for declassifying them exists.
It doesn’t really matter when you appointed the judge in the case and she is going out of her way to help you.