the tape from donald trump discussing a very sensitive military document could be a game-over moment for the ex-president in the classified documents investigation. it s a recording that not only significantly increases trump s legal exposure. but it also blows a gaping hole through many of the defenses that team trump has been peddling in public in the case. the ex-president s lawyer jim trusty went on cnn last night, playing defense in the wake of the bombshell news first reported by cnn of the tape s existence. and repeated a line that will be familiar to anyone who s been following this case. will trump display documents at will or as trump puts it even by just thinking about it. what i will tell you is there is no doubt as commander in chief when the president left washington, d.c. for mar-a-lago, he was actually still president, when he left with boxes that he brought he was the command in chief. there s no doubt he had the authority as commander in chief to be classi
doesn t have much credibility. i m sympathetic about it. in terms of katie s reporting it s fewer unadulterated spin. yeah, having listened to that, the passage quoted obviously, mark meadows wasn t there. that was the ghostwriters for the people supposedly doing interviews for the book. he s in the book, he s obviously ingratiating himself with trump. to go to the broader point, you know, this is more than a smoking gun. these are the bullets, right? this is a violation of the espionage act which says you re not allowed to keep these papers that regard, that talk to national defense. and remember, the espionage act is from 1919, it s before the classification era of truman. even this idea of he can or