Trump: ‘I’m Allowed to Do Whatever I Want’ With Classified Info - eviltoast
Trump: 'I'm Allowed to Do Whatever I Want' With Classified Info
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The former president told Hugh Hewitt that he “absolutely” would testify in the federal government’s probe of his handling of sensitive material

DONALD TRUMP SAID he “absolutely” plans to testify in the federal government’s case against him regarding classified documents he removed from the White House. “I’m allowed to do whatever I want … I’m allowed to do everything I did,” the former president told conservative podcast host Hugh Hewitt.

In an interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” that dropped Wednesday, the host asked Trump, “Did you direct anyone to move the boxes, Mr. President? Did you tell anyone to move the boxes?” referring to the boxes of more than 300 classified documents the federal government seized last year from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

“I don’t talk about anything. You know why? Because I’m allowed to do whatever I want. I come under the Presidential Records Act,” Trump replied, while also taking a quick detour to bash Hewitt. “I’m not telling you. You know, every time I talk to you, ‘Oh, I have a breaking story.’ You don’t have any story. I come under the Presidential Records Act. I’m allowed to do everything I did.”

  • MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee
    14·
    1 year ago

    Literally you’re saying that Trump taking papers to his house is worse than slavery and genocide.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 year ago

      No I’m saying it’s actually illegal and those things weren’t.

      Might wanna give “ex post facto” a quick Google.

      • MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee
        15·
        1 year ago

        Clinton blowing up the only pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan wasn’t illegal? What about Bush making up lies to invade a sovereign country and kill a million people?

        • SCB@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Do you have anything, anything at all that is

          1: domestic

          2: actually illegal and not just a thing you don’t like

          Are you not tired of me constantly proving you wrong, with citations?

          • MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee
            15·
            1 year ago

            Are you not tired of excusing war crimes? How is a crime comitted domestically worse than murdering and raping abroad?

            • SCB@lemmy.world
              31·
              1 year ago

              Well for one, given the things you’ve brought up, they’d be actual crimes and not just “things I don’t like that I lay at a given President’s feet because I don’t understand how the world works.”

              Actual crimes, like the 91 felonies Trump committed and admitted to.

                • SCB@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I doubt it pretty sincerely. But his methods of war constitute war crimes, currently. More to the point, it’s antagonistic to US interests so I hope we scale up to bombing there, or at least enforcing a no-fly zone.

                  I’d love to call Putin’s bluff.

                  • MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee
                    15·
                    1 year ago

                    Every American president since WW2 is guilty of war crimes. I hope that president Xi launches nukes at Washington DC and calls their bluff.