but very simply, the president jail records act, which is not even mentioned in thisindictme ridiculous 44 page indictment wh under the presidential records act, which is civil, not is civi criminal. i had every right to have these documents. th the crucial legal precedent is laid out in the most important case ever on this subject, known as the clinton socks case. g the you know what that means? aftewhr leaving the white house, bill clinton kept 79 audio s tapes in his sock drawer. s. mil they included discussions of u.s. militaritvolvemeny involveo haiti, discussions of u.s. foreign policylith, both defense and offense against cuba. recordings ofgs president clinton s conversations with all of. the many foreign leaders at the time. think of tha that. negoti sensitive facts about trade
free is former fbi director andy mccabe. he s a disgrace. in the lead up to the 2016 dis election, mccabe was deputy director of the fbi. think about this. leaked information about the doj t es active investigatin into the clinton foundation. the foundation to ta wall street journal reporter. now, prosecutors dropped the case, declined to charge mccabeecutor even though he lied about leaking, which is a crime. mccabe was rewarded with a lucrative, we understand cnn contributor chip lately. we see him all the time on cnnrl talking about drum roll, please. donald trump leaking. now, what s the point? m the point is you could acknowledge that mishandlingishd and leaking classified material like donald trump s been accused of doing is wrong. we think it s wrong. but the fact is, the practiceut seemine.s to be routine.rememb and that said, just the last week, for example. remember the story? nformati an anonymous government official leaked classified information about a chinese spy ba
they re going to have to get over before you even get to the issue of guiltsu or innocence. you have to examine the propriety of the government, conduct in bringing the case. and that s where i think a lot of the initial motion practice is going to focus on. so you want to look at this and say, is it right to flip your attorney to turn against their client? and do you agreer cl with the jr that they said it was okay because they said the client, corcoran, was complicicot? abot that was one. number two is about this high to classified material. you got to go aheagod and say, i need if they re going to charge you with taking it, thbetter be able to readg it and the jury may be able to see it. are they going to get clearee ed to see this? and if you don t want to clear the jury and give them the classification, then you ve got to throw it out, don t you? well, here s the thing. of the hundreds of documents yoi that they seized and that were returned in the varioues searches and with the n
trump attorney timothy paletta believes so. he told politicothat that trumps several viable strategies that could blow holes in smith say case. he s gotten holes blown in these cases before, by the wayst ,including potential prosecutorial misconduct by a seniora doj official.mp paletta joins us right now. former trump attorney. tim, thanks for being here. tell me what where is the i weakness in in a case that everyone says is such a strong indictmentst? anll, the indictment is just an allegation. and, you know, in my career, i ve seen plenty of these types of allegations that when you get into the actual evidence, you find out it doesn t really back it up the way that the initial document is written. obviously, it s written inrittei the most way possible usingnora the most the most damning evidence while ignoring anything that would be exculpatory. so really, you have to take all those allegations with a grain of salt before you get into allf the discovery. but also in this case, t
responsibility is left solely to the president of the united states. think of that. that s the decision. think of tha tht. now, just think of that. other in other words,him he whatever documents the president decides to take r with him, he has the right to do so. thn absolute right. this is the law.at and that i is something thatd it people have now seen. and it couldn t be more clear they ought to drop this case immediately because they re destroying a country. and this is why no other president, even those who keptth far more documentsan than i has ever been even invest, let alone charged with a crime, ardy because the sham indictment put forward by the biden administration the bid included stagemany photographs of boxes at mar-a-lago. many p people have asked me why i had these boxes.