Chris Hayes, MSNBC host and filling in for President Joe Biden’s former press secretary, kicked off Monday’s episode of “All In” with a discussion of the latest legal difficulties faced by disgraced former President Donald Trump.
While Psaki acknowledged “we’re in unprecedented territory,” he said the idea that Trump would somehow benefit politically from having the money he illegally took from the White House “a bit of wishful thinking.” Looks like.”
For those who need a refresher, it emerged last year that Trump left the White House with a large number of classified documents, many relating to extremely sensitive matters. He then refused to return the documents despite multiple requests from the government, eventually leading to his Florida resort being raided.
After nearly a year, it has emerged that Trump staffers may actively move to hide evidence that Trump knowingly took classified documents, despite his baseless claim that he “declassified” them. Trump’s lawyers met on Monday with Justice Department officialsIn an attempt to save him from being charged.
When the matter became public, it soon emerged that both President Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence had also taken small amounts of classified documents, although in both cases the disclosures were made voluntarily and officials worked with investigators. Cooperated fully. Meanwhile, as Trump faces more serious legal problems, supporters have been unwaveringleading to a conventional wisdom consensus that being reelected may actually benefit Trump.
Now, back to Saki
Talking about her experience working for two different presidents – Barack Obama and Biden – Psaki said, “Despite what Donald Trump’s lawyers are telling you all, there is no magic wand, no Only a president has to retroactively declassify documents.” Nor is there any special declassification process available only to the White House.
“And Trump’s allies argue that deliberately taking classified documents about issues as sensitive as nuclear secrets, or a hypothetical war with Iran, say, and sharing them with others — which Donald Trump allegedly Psaki continued, “the exact same thing done intentionally, that’s the key word, retaining classified documents and then returning them — which both President Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence did — exactly Not on level.
“And having worked on three presidential campaigns and 20 years in politics, the argument, the political argument from Trump allies that more indictments should cost Trump sounds like a little bit of wishful thinking to me, there’s a little spin to it. Especially when the next indictment It can be about very popular issues like the protection of our democracy and our national security,” Psaki said.
“Traditionally, it’s not a good thing to be accused, it’s not a good thing. But, we’re in unprecedented territory here. And even I have to admit, after spending a lot of time in the political world, I’ve seen campaign buses. And in the amount of time I’ve spent in the Oval Office, I’ve never worked for a candidate under indictment, with the potential for additional charges along the way,” she said. “So this situation is new to me too, we’re all in this together.”
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