In an ongoing rant posted to his personal social media account on Monday, the former president admitted that he stole the documents from the White House, concealed them for a year, lied to the FBI, his lawyers lied in court documents, then demanded a special master and now a special master is overseeing a likely prosecution.
“When will you invade Bill and Hillary’s home in search of the 33,000 emails she deleted AFTER receiving a subpoena from the U.S. Congress? When will you invade the other Presidents’ homes in search of documents, which are voluminous, which they took with them, but not nearly so openly and transparently as I did?”
But it’s the last line Trump wrote that will likely be one people remember forever: “they took with them, but not nearly so openly and transparently as I did?”
Trump has only been transparent about stealing the documents after the FBI came in to take them back and after over a year of outreach in trying to acquire them. At no point did Trump post anything or reveal anything about stealing the documents “transparently.”
McCord made it clear, saying “I thought they were mine,” isn’t really a possibility anymore. She went on to explain that many of the documents being classified and marked as such are also damning for Trump.
Former FBI general counsel and prosecutor under special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, Andrew Weissmann, was attacked by Trump in an earlier post as he’s been fearless in speaking out about the laws that Trump breaks.
“With Donald Trump, one of the things that you have learned through history and you know is a posture is all of this is never about the actual facts. It is always about invective and activists and media spin,” said Weissmann. “If you’re a defense lawyer, you’re having palpitations because of some of that media spin that he engages in. So, the statement you read at the outset of the program completely belies the defense of the documents were planted.”
Approved ~ FS
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