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previous guy's 'Damning Evidence' - (they're mine! I stole them fair and square) [1]
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Date: 2022-10-10
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner called Trump a 'classified documents terrorist' who should be arrested: 'Put an end to our long national nightmare'.
Trump’s latest disinformation tactic is to accuse GHW Bush of hiding classified documents in a bowling alleys' restaurant as he did at his recent rally:
Facts First: All of these Trump claims are false. George H.W. Bush did not take millions of documents to a former bowling alley and Chinese restaurant. Rather, the National Archives and Records Administration took Bush’s presidential documents to this facility prior to the opening of the Bush presidential library in the same city. Trump’s claims about Clinton and George W. Bush are inaccurate in precisely the same way: NARA, not the former presidents themselves, put the documents in temporary storage at NARA-managed facilities at the former car dealership in Arkansas and the warehouse in Texas. And Trump was also wrong that there was “no security” at the facility where the elder Bush’s documents were housed: the facility was heavily secured, according to a news report at the time.
So there is no equivalence between Trump’s handling of presidential documents and those of his predecessors. In the others’ cases, the presidential documents were in NARA’s possession and stored securely and professionally. In Trump’s case, the presidential documents found in haphazard amateur storage at Mar-a-Lago were in Trump’s own possession, despite numerous attempts by both NARA and the Justice Department to get them back.
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x At a rally Sunday evening in Arizona, Trump claimed that George H.W. Bush “took millions and millions of documents to a former bowling alley pieced together with what was then an old and broken Chinese restaurant.”
https://t.co/yIFN0FTCay — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 11, 2022
"How do you show that somebody like Donald Trump knew what was at Mar-a-Lago, and it wasn't just his lawyers or underlings who knew the details?" Andrew Weissmann posed. "Well, that he's trying to engage in the 'Art of the Deal' with respect to classified documents, and he's saying these documents were all mine. Those are incredibly damning statements that go directly to knowledge and intent. And you can be sure that the DOJ prosecutors are doing what I'm doing, which is listening to this going, this is making it that much easier to prove the only element that it could pose any real difficulty for the Department of Justice in bringing a case in bringing the Mar-a-Lago documents. So, yes, I agree with you, there are all sorts of horrendous things when you take the big picture, that he's thinking of trading these documents and using them this way when they're national security documents. But from a criminal perspective, his statements are even more damning and are going to be I think much more harmful to him."
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