prosecutors have a lot of discretion why would they do that? so the role of a prosecutor is that you get to choose what federal district you could to bring your case in. but asked to be a federal district for some portion of the crime occurred. here, you can see how the crime occurred in florida. the document retention and mishandling crime and the obstruction crime. the other argument is d. c.. well, he took the documents from d. c.. that would be the scene at the crime. but the counter argument to that is if the facts are, and kaitlan will probably know this, if he took the documents out of there and sent them to mar-a-lago before noon on january 20th, while still president, that is not going to be a crime. it does not become a crime until he uses the power of the presidency, and then he illegally has those documents. if that is the case, then the whole crime happened in florida, not in d. c., and he can t charge in d. c.. also, if the question that case is not just the takin
documents had been given back when they haven t. if you or i had a lawyer who had been waved off from searching our personal office where documents were found. if you or i had claimed an empty folder with a confined marking found in our bedroom was being used to cover up a blue light from the bedside landline telephone those keeping us up at night, we would have been indicted and prosecuted long ago. hence, beyond no illusion he on that. trump s core legal defense fell apart this week, because his core legal defense until this week had been that he did nothing wrong, because he was president and he declassified all those documents before he left office. at noon on january 20th, 2021. even though he has offered no evidence that they were all declassified, even though he makes nonsensical claims like this. if you are the president of the united states you can declassified just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. yes, he declassified them with his mind. just by thi
trump s core legal defense fell apart this week, because his core legal defense until this week had been that he did nothing wrong, because he was president and he declassified all those documents before he left office. at noon on january 20th, 2021. even though he has offered no evidence that they were all declassified, even though he makes nonsensical claims like this. if you are the president of the united states you can declassified just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it.
this was a case brought by the trump justice department, the southern district of new york brought this case and told the sentencing judge, again, the trump administration told the sentencing judge for michael cohen that cohen s crimes were committed at the behest of and the direction for and the benefit for donald trump, and so these are this is serious these are serious onss. the thing about trump is he s committed so many others, that it looks less serious than trying to overturn the election and the constitution and so on and so forth. that s the only reason, if this case has any flaws it s that it sh should have been brought as a federal case at noon on january 20th, 2021. so that s interesting. so you think anyone protesting this case theoretically in order to be intellectually consistent, if they weren t protesting the prosecution of michael cohen by,
rightfully, you know, has them. so number one, he s admitting that yes, i do have these materials, but specifics about what might be in the boxes, you know, we still don t know. but according to the search warrant, things marked top secret and classified are among those seized. so how will investigators try to determine what these materials are and what may have handled them, sorted them, packed them? and all the people involved in declassifying documents. fredericka, there are a couple of different elements to your question. first is the question is did the president declassify these before he left office at noon on january 20th, 2021. and we simply don t know. i mean, he can could simply declare something to be declassified, but there s nothing in the markings, as far as we can tell from the inventory the fbi left us, to indicate that they were declassified. you ve seen what these documents look like when they are