mar-a-lago. trump undoubtedly is hoping to get a favorable ruling from the courts six conservative justices, three of whom trump appointed. now, trump s lawyers are not explicitly trying to prevent doj investigators from looking at the documents taking from his beach club. but they are attempting to get the review of the documents back before the court appointed special master, which could potentially throw some sand in the gears of the departments investigation. despite recent reporting that trump s legal team was perhaps looking to soften its tone in this case, the filing today by trump s lawyers is filled with more angry screens against the department of justice. they accused the department of feigned concern about reported to pin some offense on trump. it is the latest in a series of aggressive and bellicose moves by trump, which he s employed for a very long time to move away from scandals and legal quandaries. and it s more evidence of the mindset with which he approa
quandaries. and it s more evidence of the mindset with which he approaches both the powers of the presidency and the keeping of the nation s secrets. in a post on his social media website following the filing today, trump told his followers, i want my documents back. that s what he said. i want my documents back. because trump still believes that the classified government records seized from his home, his beach club, belonged to him and him alone. today, veteran new york times journalist maggie haberman has released a new book about donald trump s life and time in office s. it s called confidence man the: making of donald trump and the breaking of america. the book is full of previously unreported stories about trump s erratic behavior in the white house, including new details about what else trump s mishandling of classified information we. and one passage trump battled with his own national security team over his desire to play fast and loose with sensitive secrets,
you re gonna maybe have voting for raphael warnock in the senate race? i actually think it s not too hard to imagine went to war with donald trump and they both won republican primaries about against trump backed opponents. if you re a voter in georgia who doesn t really like joe biden, doesn t really like the democrats, but also doesn t like donald trump, that s a kind of voter that charges democrats are able to get to and might say, hey, can t is perfectly acceptable. that disconnect. the other challenge though he has to finish ahead of walker, obviously, but georgia runoff state. if he doesn t get to 50% plus one, there s a libertarian in the race. we ve seen this in georgia many
accept the world as it is. in a twisted mind. i mean, there s also a part of this book where we are talking about, where you talk about trump decides he is going to refuse to leave the white house and the days after the 2020 election loss. and that is a remarkable anecdotes that you talk about. and it s also something that people use for in terms of the, buck and win this hole you no attempt to steal the election transpired. talk to me a little bit about how we were you made and make decisions as to what to leave in the book, what s a report out, and the process and which you did that? so i turned on earnest to the project after the second impeachment trial which ended i think in february of 2021. and a book is different. a book takes time. i wanted to paint a broad architectural portrait of a person s life. and not as a person s life but of our country, of how he came
he didn t want people knowing what he was doing, but he didn t trust the government. one of the fascinating things about the donald trump presidency, explore this, it s just ali deep level of paranoia. and what that meant for somebody who was overseeing this apparatus, that he didn t trust. he didn t trust the government. and the government didn t trust him. at the end of his presidency. we read it in the introduction to the segment. john kelly doesn t believe trump can have access to these documents. shoe box in the oval office. that s a staggering development. we know there s always been this institutional deep state desire to protect trump from himself. but the degree to which they really didn t trust him with anything, it sounds like. now, and this was an ongoing issue with the classified material where he would sometimes my colleagues and i wrote about this recently he wanted to keep stuff. and they weren t really sure why, or what it meant. they would try to get thing