Trump’s latest defense is the joke that keeps on giving
Donald Trump workshopped his latest excuse for allegedly illegally moving all those top secret docs to Mar-a-Lago, and we’re going to call this one the Barbra Eden defense.Related: Donald Trump’s fraud lawsuit takes a grim turn as Bernie Madoff’s lawyer enters the chatFresh off his latest legal defeat — earlier in the day a three-judge panel ruled that the FBI may use the documents in its ongoing criminal investigation — Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that as president, he could declassify things just by “thinking about it.”“You have said on Truth Social, a number of times, you did declassify,” Hannity said.“I did declassify,” Trump responded.“What was your process to declassify?” Hannity asked, to which Trump said, “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it.
You know, there’s different people, say different things.”“If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘it’s declassified’ — even by thinking about it.”It’s as simple as that!“There doesn’t have to be a process … I declassified everything” — Trump on how he declassified documents (this is false — there is a process Trump didn’t follow) pic.twitter.com/ehX8QqTnmB— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2022Regardless, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the, “declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal.”Still, it’s made for some good responses:Hi ?.
House Intelligence Committee Chair here.Trump just claimed he could declassify things by saying “‘it’s declassified,’ even by thinking about it.”I know he says he’s a big “thinker” and all, but that’s not how any of this works.
