he spent 15 years in a psychiatric hospital, and believed he was a changed man. his parents believed it too. john s whole demeanor has changed, and he s a more open, loving person. to them, hinckley was no criminal. he was being treated for mental illness, and deserved compassion. he wasn t a sniper on a rooftop, he was just a pathetic figure, trying to impress a movie star that he never met. after so many years of treatment, he wanted permission to visit his family, off of hospital grounds. hinckley s doctors told the court, his psychosis and depression were in remission, and had been for years. i think what they observed is that he was less preoccupied with the psychotic delusions. but, federal prosecutors didn t buy it. they believe, hinckley was still a threat to society.
because it means that this is the most highly sensitive information and could therefore compromise people who put their lives on the line who are, for example, clandestine sources. and it could compromise the surveillance that we use. it has ripple effects beyond even just the documents themselves. kaitlan, one they know we ve been hearing, former trump officials after seeing how it is all described. they weren t at all surprised to hear that trump had classified documents mixed in with other documents. the way it is described as, he was known to walk around the white house, walk around mar-a-lago, pick up a document from one box and put it into another. did us that track what you know? yes. he wasn t a president very careful with he have. he reveal some national intelligence to russian officials, if you ll recall, during a meeting in the oval office that officials did not know he was going to do. so when you read through this, they were talking about how some
the major things that i mentioned in the intro that you worked on in the campaign. is this book a sign that you and the family are sort of coming back, that you re ready for another run at the presidency? both you and your wife, ivanka, have been quiet the past couple years. is this like okay, we re back on the scene and ready to go. don t read anything to it other than the fact that the experience i had in the white house was very unique. again, i think that donald trump was an outsider president. he was a business man. he wasn t a career politician. i was in the business world in the private sector. we both chose to give that up. i followed him in to it. then the book shows what it s like to be an outsider in washington and if you re results driven you can get things done. when i left government, i didn t do a lot of communicating. i wasn t talking to the press. i just achieved the six-peace deal in the middle east. everybody doubted when i was put on the file for three years.
yorker and msnbc contributor david rohde. david, this story is hard to understand. especially since mbs has been doing this whitewashing of his reputation since khashoggi, especially since he was ushered into power initially before the khashoggi stuff, allowing women to drive, giving them more freedoms outside of the house, this is incongruous, it doesn t make sense. women don t have more freedom if you jail a mother of two for 32 years for tweeting. it s the latest example of how he s essentially lied to the west. you re right, he portrayed himself as this great modernizer but he s been anything but. what s astonishing, so it s 34 years in jail, she was mostly retweeting activists tweets, then she has a 34-year travel ban on top of that. and she wasn t a very active user. she was studying dentistry in the uk.
leader who is deeply distrusted also tend to fare badly. an important example of this would be in 2019, when labour went into a general election withjeremy corbyn, who had very poor ratings, similar to boris johnson. he wasn t a trusted messenger on brexit. and he did particularly badly. so i think one of the meter readings of the 2019 election was that borisjohnson had some sort of special, unique appeal to voters in particular parts of the country. he certainly had an appeal to the leave voters, who were in important constituencies in the red wall, especially in the north of england and the midlands. but we should never treat anything in politics is permanent. the challenge to the conservative party is whether borisjohnson can restore those former glories. but it is important former glories. but it is important for the conservatives to realise they are not going to be facing jeremy corbyn in the next election, they will be facing an opposition leader who has better ratings, a