Now that he’s just about exhausted every absurd excuse he can think of for why he had hundreds of classified documents in his office at Mar-a-Lago, disgraced, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump has decided to blame his 2016 Democratic presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Yes, once again he’s trying to blame Hillary.
During a radio interview on Thursday, the one-term ex-president said:
The host interjected:
Trump continued:
Yeah, Trump has Hillary’s emails, but he was sitting on them. He wasn’t going to release them, but the FBI came and got them. That’s so logical, huh?
What’s next? Will Donald try to lay the blame on the Great Pumpkin? The Grinch? The Easter Bunny?
Trump is scared. He’s terrified. And now he wants to blame Hillary…AGAIN!
Alina Habba is an attorney for disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump, and she’s absolutely flabbergasted that the Justice Department might want to charge her client with “mundane” crimes such as violations of the Espionage Act.
Speaking with right-wing activist Charlie Kirk on Real America’s Voice, Habba whined:
“So what they did was to try and criminalize Donald Trump, as they always do. They found these three mundane statutes, espionage and the two others, obstruction.
“And they’re trying to claim that there was some sort of criminal activity. But their papers say it’s under the Presidential Records Act. So your admission is the power that we’ve all been saying he does have. You can take a picture of top secret documents, Charlie, and show the world a label.”
Habba added:
Time for a fact check: Habba is trying to cloud the matter by suggesting everything was covered under the Presidential Records Act, and that means Trump should have turned all his records and documents over to the National Archives.
The documents were not declassified because there is no paper trail proving that. Trump cannot just wave his hand over a piece of paper and call it declassified. There’s a process that requires quite a lot of paperwork and numerous steps before something is officially declassified.
Additionally, as Mediaite notes, there are several laws Trump is suspected of having violated, and they’re a hell of a lot more serious than Habba is suggesting:
The warrant allowing the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago cited three potential statute violations by Trump:
18 USC 2071 — Concealment, removal or mutilation 18 USC 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information 18 USC 1519 — Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigations
18 USC 793 is the Espionage Act, which Habba referenced.
It now appears that disgraced ex-president Donald Trump is in the deepest legal jeopardy of his life, ironically because of something he did that he tried to accuse Hillary Clinton of: Mishandling classified information.
Clinton, it should be noted, was not president, and she didn’t have access to the highest level of top-secret data that Trump had as president. Also, Clinton didn’t leave such information laying around in cardboard boxes at a resort where almost anyone could have had access to the documents.
And yet, despite those very different facts, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is warning that if Trump is indicted and prosecuted, there’s going to be rioting in the streets.
Sounds like a threat, doesn’t it?
Appearing on Fox News, Graham said:
Graham got some well-deserved pushback on social media for his remarks:
Donald Trump is terrified. It’s quite obvious by the crap he’s been posting on his failing Twitter imitation, Truth Social.
The disgraced ex-president is now suggesting that FBI agents need to stage a revolt and overthrow the leadership of the agency because what Hillary Clinton did in regard to classified information was much worse than the crimes he’s suspected of having committed.
When are the great Agents, and others, in the FBI going to say “we aren’t going to take it anymore,” much as they did when James Comey read off a list of all of Crooked Hillary Clinton’s crimes, only to say that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute. The wonderful people of the FBI went absolutely “nuts,” so Comey had to backtrack and do a FAKE INVESTIGATION in order to keep them at bay. The end result, we won in 2016 (and did MUCH better in 2020!). But now the “Left” has lost their minds!!!
Who has lost their mind? Is it the left, or is it the deranged senior citizen yelling into the internet ether as if doing so will somehow save his ass now that his crimes have risen to the level of espionage and treason?
Also, that call for revolt by FBI agents is likely yet another crime that can be added to the growing list of offenses the Justice Department can seek an indictment for.
Always eager to prove his devotion to a man who allegedly used to physically abuse him, Donald Trump Jr. posted a photo on Instagram showing his father’s crotch with a black bar over and a message that reads:
Don Jr. also posted an image on Twitter showing one page of the redacted affidavit released Friday by the Justice Department that lays out exactly why the FBI had to serve a search warrant on the Mar-a-Lago resort where disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump currently lives:
HuffPost notes that even though the affidavit was indeed redacted, it still contained details that are very bad news for the ex-president:
The affidavit, although heavily blacked out, detailed repeated requests by federal officials for boxes of documents that the former president had stashed at his Mar-a-Lago estate when he left the White House. It showed that highly classified information was haphazardly stored at the private country club that includes his residence. The information contradicted Trump’s claim that officials only had to ask and they would have been given the material.
The National Archives first reached out about retrieving records from Mar-a-Lago in May 2021, according to the affidavit. Trump’s aides responded later that year that they had 12 boxes ready to be picked up, and the National Archives eventually left with 15 boxes in January.
FBI agents searched Trump’s Florida estate on Aug. 8 and took away dozens of additional boxes, including 11 packets of classified documents. Among that set was a batch labeled with the highest classification markings, meant for review only in secure government facilities.
Don Jr. (a.k.a. Traitor Tot), got plenty of mockery on Twitter for his tweet, with most of those who responded reminding the former president’s eldest son that his old man is in some very deep sh*t.