states. think of that. that s the decision. think of that. now, just think of that. in other words, whatever documents a president decides to take with him he has the right to do so. it s an absolute right. this is the law. that is something that people have now seen and it couldn t be more clear. they ought to drop this case immediately, because they re destroying this is why no other. , even those who kept far more documents than i, has ever been even investigated, let alone charged with a crime. because the sham indictment put forward by the biden administration included staged photographs of boxes at mar-a-lago. many people have asked me why i had these boxes. why did you want them? the answer, in addition to
after turning himself in to the miami federal courthouse. hundreds supporters took to the streets outside the courthouse. some even prayed for trump at a cafe that he arbitrarily stopped at as he left the courthouse. seemed kind of relaxed. the justice department is alleging, in case you ve been in a cave, that the former president mishandled classified documents that included u.s. defensive weapons secrets, even an attack plan on an unnamed foreign power. fill in iran. 31 charges file the espionage act. whatever you think of donald trump s actions, let s put it into context. the espionage act is over hundred years old. president woodrow wilson signed it into law to protect the nation from foreign spies during world war i. most prosecutions involving the espionage act have been reserved for actual spies. even trump s worst critics are not alleging that he passed
the espionage act has been used to go after traitors and spies, it has nothing to do with a former president legally keeping his own documents. as president, the law that applies to this case is not the espionage act but very simply, the presidential records act which is not even mentioned in this ridiculous 44 page indictment. underthe indictment. under the presidential records indictment. underthe presidential records act which is civil, not criminal, i had every right to have these documents. the crucial legal precedent is laid out in the most important case ever on the subject known as the clinton socks case. you know what that means? after leaving the white house, bill clinton kept 79 audiotapes in his sock drawer. they included discussions of us
it is a broader term than classification. same with the obstruction. (audio gap) with classification markings, those markings are still there so whether he declassified them or not, if he went through formal processes or not, it s only going to be immaterial to the question of whether he violated these criminal statute. we heard again these criminal statute. we heard again the these criminal statute. we heard again the president very defiant there as he was all day long, but the indictment does lay out pretty clearly what the charges are and some of the evidence we werejust charges are and some of the evidence we were just looking at pictures of those boxes, those pictures were of course included in the indictment. there will be people who listen to donald trump tonight or who don t to donald trump tonight or who don t and to donald trump tonight or who don t and who read the news and will say don t and who read the news and will say this is all much ado about will say this i
but wewe give them give them tht protection so they can ask those questions. and often we re in a position of saying no , they know you can t do that. you shouldn t do it. and u diand even if you did do o you would it would cost you more in terms ofle the penalties. so we play that role by usingn s this privilege. so the question is, is why using they were given such leeway in using this attorney s evidence. and i think that will be a matter of substantialsaid, challenge. magistrate judge goodman said, hey, don t do this. do me a favoon tkr. don t talk to anybody involved in the case. good luck with that. i mean, it s it s illogical a to think he s not going to beca talking to a body man about a case that could both land you in jail for life. buse than got go ahead, try.ey ll pr but if there probably bugged the place in, they ll haveo something some more tapes to play. but right now, in the next wha two weeks, what motion should we be looking for? to see if it s a sound if strao the