The latest excuse/defense from failed one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump for why he had dozens of boxes of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida is that some of the boxes also contained “shirts and shoes.”
Speaking to supporters Tuesday evening at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club, just hours after he had been arraigned on 37 federal criminal counts, Trump tried out his latest bogus excuse, The Independent reports.
“Many people have asked me why I had these boxes, why did you want them? The answer, in addition to having every right under the Presidential Records Act, is that these boxes were containing all types of personal belongings — many, many things, shirts and shoes, everything.”
The disgraced ex-president also claimed that he hadn’t had time to look through all of the boxes and retrieve his personal items, which he said explained why he’d been busted red-handed with top-secret files.
“I hadn’t had a chance to go through all the boxes. It’s a long tedious job, it takes a long time — which I was prepared to do, but I have a very busy life. I’ve had a very busy life.”
In just a few months time, we’ve gone from Trump saying he had declassified all the documents to now claiming he was storing clothes in boxes with the files and was far too busy to separate them.
Let’s hope Donald will insist that his attorneys use his latest defense when the case goes before a jury. If they do, the jurors will find him guilty in less than a half-hour.
