come on and run. i mean, you know, real talk about like the sociologist teaching intro to sociology of race at 40 universities. stand back new college. all right, thank you as always, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. remember back in august of last year when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that, right? he also fund raised off of it, and really he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was of the deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news. quote, president trump had a standing order that documents removed from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified t
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taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president needs to approve a declassification is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all these documents, whatever a standing declassification order is. cool. except nobody bought it. cnn interviewed 18 former officials from trump s own administration who called this explanation ludicrous and ridiculous and complete fission. john kelly trump s chief of staff he said nothing approaching an order that foolish was ever given. and i can t imagine anyone who would work at the white house after me would have simply shrugged their shoulders and allow that order to go forward.
supposed to work. and now those 16 written records could become a key part of special counsel jack smith s case against former president trump. according to cnn the 16 presidential records may provide critical evidence establishing the former president s awareness of the declassification process, a key part into trump s mishandling of classified documents and the records may also provide insight into trump s intent and whether he willfully disregarded what he knew to be clearly established protocols. so these records seem fairly important, is why the doj apparently subpoenaed them earlier this year. and since then trump s legal team has done everything in its power to make sure these 16 documents don t see the light of day, although for the record trump s legal team says this fight is more of a strategic fight about constitutional and presidential protections rather than keeping evidence from the special counsel, which is, okay.