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Brit Hume: Trump defense of taking documents ‘incoherent’
The Hill ^ | 06/20/2023 | BRETT SAMUELS

Posted on 06/20/2023 8:02:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Fox News analyst Brit Hume said Monday that former President Trump’s defense for keeping classified documents was borderline “incoherent.”

“His answers on the matter of the law seem to verge on incoherent,” Hume said after a portion of Trump’s interview with Fox anchor Bret Baier aired on the network.

“He seemed to be saying the documents were really his and he didn’t give them back when he was requested to do so, and when they were subpoenaed because he wasn’t ready to because he hadn’t sorted them or whatever from his golf shirts,” Hume said. “It was not altogether clear what he was saying, but he seemed to believe that the documents were his, that he had declassified them and therefore he could do whatever he wanted with them.”

Hume cast doubt on the idea that Trump’s explanation would hold up in court.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: documents; hume; inchoerent; no; trump; trumptakeanydocumrnt
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To: cymbeline

Click on the picture and it will take you to the story.


61 posted on 06/20/2023 11:05:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
The main burden on the prosecution will be to make sure that no one who might be open-minded is seated on the jury.

It has been said that Trump hurt himself by his comments to Baier in the interview. Maybe that is true from a legal standpoint (I'm not a lawyer) but that may not matter depending on the makeup of the jury. Trump probably helped himself in the short run in terms of reassuring his supporters.

62 posted on 06/20/2023 11:22:25 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yah. Hey Brit, just how would you tell? You have never made sense.


63 posted on 06/20/2023 11:38:16 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

From the Eisenhower administration through the Obama administration, NARA and GSA have sent people to the out-going White House to sort out and box the documents destined for National Archives. They did not do that for Trump. He was left on his own to do the job. Why???


64 posted on 06/20/2023 11:41:54 AM PDT by elpadre (nd )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Click on the picture and it will take you to the story.”

Wow! Thanks for pointing that out.

The author says “If the documents did not belong to President Donald J. Trump, then why did the government dump them in the parking lot of the White House and tell him to deal with them?”

Sounds devastating to the case against Trump. Why has it not already been discussed in the media?

Could it be that the pictured pile of documents had already been looked at by the NARA and found to contain nothing worthy of archiving, and the prosecution knows that?


65 posted on 06/21/2023 5:20:15 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Brit masquerades as a conservative. Has been for decades. Still just another go-along, get-along appeaser to leftists who is entirely comfortable with second-tier power.


66 posted on 06/21/2023 5:25:56 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: cymbeline

They want it both ways. They want to force him to take possession of the documents, then prosecute him for possessing them.


67 posted on 06/21/2023 5:31:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“They want it both ways”

Much of what’s going on is hidden from us, and we look into a fog of differing opinions.

It seems to me though that the vague laws on handling classified documents, and judgments on previous document-handling cases, work in Trump’s favor.


68 posted on 06/21/2023 7:10:54 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

Who decides what is “classified” during a Presidential administration?

The President?

Or affirmative-action bureaucrats?


69 posted on 06/21/2023 7:23:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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