felony violations of our national security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the department of justice in our nation s commitment to the rule of law sits an example for the world. we have one set of laws in this country, and they ve let everyone. the 38 count indictment against trump and his personal and now codefendant walt nauta accuses the former president of 30 accounts of willful retention of national defense information, three counts of withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation, two counts of false statements, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. according to the indictment the classified documents trump stored in these boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the united states and foreign countries. united states nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the united states and its allies to military attack
on the one hand, he is the only person pulling in double digits. so in a way, trump going down is great for him. but the problem is, his whole strategy has been to try to co-opt trump space by going even further right than trump. trump s mean, i am meaner. trump does not like schools? i am going to chase teachers into the coat closet and slam the door behind them. i am going to persecute lgbtq people, i m going to persecute black folks, i m going to persecute the immigrants who literally fuel the economy of my state. i m gonna persecute mickey mouse. i am even wilder than donald trump. so the main incentive structure for him, if that is his game, say i m going to also pardon trump. i am also gerald ford. if you like me, i will protect trump. but trump, you and i both know, anyone who has paid attention to trump. trump will never humble himself, to this man who used to dress his kid in a trump onesie, and who he thinks is subordinate. he will never humble himself to
spent as defendant trump, either as a criminal defendant appealing convictions, and certainly as a civil defendant which is going to be for the rest of his life. so his next presidential campaign now already underway was always going to be a campaign to re-zoom the pardon power for himself. he was always going to do that. but i m so struck by where we are at this hour tonight. because 48 hours ago, 48 hours ago i was 45 minutes away from conducting an interview with the most recent former member of the trump criminal defense team. there are now two new ones today. and in that interview and our interview with the same lawyer before that here is what couldn t be established, from him. when did donald trump ever look at the contents of any of the boxes?
fbi? no, that would be by one of his employees. and there s going to be metadata to prove that. in other words, on the phone where they push got that information is going to say this is taken on this day in this time. you can t make that stuff up. there s a connection between the cohen case, you had trump s lawyer being induced to participate in a crime, and then donald trump like the scooby-doo villain that he has signed the reimbursement check in the oval office with his big magic marker. in that case as well, whatever you want to say about michael cohen, he s got receipts to. in this case you ve got tapes, you ve got the fall guy in this case doing all of the box moving and there s a security for its surveillance video when you ve got the lawyer who s playing the michael cohen in this case, mr. corcoran, who is schumer s attorney number one rating contemporaneous notes saying he s asking me to crime, let me go ahead and take notes of all the crime-ing but he s asking me to do. e
doesn t matter in an espionage case. but people wonder why did this man keep all this stuff? if you think about why he wanted to be president, right, it wasn t because he had some great passion for america. he ran saying america is basically in-esque whole country under obama. he didn t express great patriotism or love of country. he essentially wanted to be president to aggrandize him self. everything he s done in his career is to aggrandize i m self. it is logical to assume he just wanted things to further aggrandized him self. the thing that is frightening is that donald trump s associations are not just meant to make him feel better, like he likes putin because putin says he smart. but he also likes putin. right, he has a son in law who couldn t get a security clearance jared kushner to mar-a-lago. he s associates himself. he had not seen the lunch. there are a lot of people that