'Absolutely preposterous': George Conway refutes Trump's claim he took documents 'legally'

President Donald Trump is expected to be in court today for a hearing in the case of classified federal

documents

against him in Fort Pierce, Florida. U.S. District Judge Aen Cannon will hear arguments on two of Trump's motions to dismiss the charges against him. The first argues that Trump was allowed to store classified

documents

like this, open rooms in his Club under the Presidential Records Act,

claim

s this was fine, by the way, it's not fine and we'll see if the judge, who I assume, desperately wants to be otherwise appointed Donald Trump will make the mistakes he made before and then be

absolutely

vilified by the 11th circuit, so we will see that she can rule what she wants, but no court will defend an argument as absurd as the second motion

claim

s that the main statute used to bring charges against the former president is unconstitutional ution Al vague in an interview yesterday with the right-wing Network News Newsmax Trump defended his actions I

took

it very

legally

and I did not hide them we had boxes in the front and many of those boxes had clothes and many things, we We moved, okay, unfortunately, we moved out of the White House.

I had the right to do it in my opinion and in my lawyer's opinion and everything else. That interview was, yes, fantastic, but no. It's true, it's just not true what he said, let's bring in lawyer George Conway, hey George, so let's say that Donald Trump accidentally packed up his golf shirts and his golf shoes and some classified documents and

took

them, discovered it and then said : "Hey, me." you have these things that you need to get it back without harm or foul you would have come looking for it you would have removed it because in fact that is exactly what happened in the case of Joe Biden here no matter what he says on max or fox news here he had the documents who knew he had the documents lied to the FBI about the documents they tried to negotiate to get the documents back returned some of them in fact had his lawyers sign an affidavit swearing that all the documents were returned and ended up that they were lying he kept more documents and He then tried to get his IT guy to destroy the evidence, the IT guy refused, then he asked someone else to flood the IT room with pool water, that guy refused.

Also, they are now testifying against Donald Trump, so for all the idiots out there, let me say that you are not idiots, all those who have been brainwashed and are now in Donald Trump's personality cult, you are Immune to the facts, they are immune to the truth. who is immune to what is right and what is wrong in this situation, clarify for them, if you will, George, the difference between those two scenarios. I think you just did, but what Trump is arguing is, as you say,

absolutely

absurd. I mean, he's arguing first of all. that the records belong to him according to the presidential records act literally the presidential records stops and starts saying precisely the opposite.

That the official documents of the president belong to the United States of America and the president may have certain rights to review those documents after the fact, but they have to go through the National Archives and none of that, you know, has anything to do even with the classification. The classification issue is something that does not affect the fact that he took these documents and then kept them, but and there is no argument that this is in any way unconstitutionally vague. I mean, he obstructed justice. There is simply no doubt that people go to jail for it all the time and there is no doubt that these materials contain National Defense information, even if he could get it out. the character the routine routine Magnificent with an envelope on his head and says that these are declassified, they would still be National Defense information under the Espionage Act and that and each of those charges subjects him to a potential of 10 years in prison and there are only dozens of charges, so, he, yes, I, St.

George, the most telling thing here is, and again, Donald Trump has done so many things throughout the process just to undermine and eviscerate every one of his arguments, everything that argument of well, I could declassify them if I wanted to. of course, undercut by his statement to his campaign manager when he was showing her top secret Iranian invasion plans saying this is classified material. If I were still president, I could declassify it and then I would have no problem showing everyone in space this, but I am no longer president, so I cannot declassify these materials, so again, even that statement is false, it cannot be carak, the magician, it can't be Trump, the almighty former president, he broke the law that he knows he broke broke the law admitted that he broke the law that is absolutely correct it is an open and shut case with all the witnesses against him talking about how He told the prosecutors and the grand jury how he hid the documents and lied about the documents, how his lawyers lie about the documents, tried to destroy the evidence and so on, as you mentioned, I mean, that's it, it's devastating evidence and it's not a complicated case, yes, there is sensitive National Security information in those documents, but the precise content does not matter and that is the reason why this case is not that complicated, there is no type of that, it is just like a case of drug bust, basically he had the drugs, I mean the documents that people saw. with the documents that he hid, he hid the documents and you know the evidence was in his office, in his bathroom and in his ballroom at his own private resort, it's just that this case should have gone to trial right now, frankly, if so. not because of the strange actions of this district judge from the beginning, who tried to paralyze the Department of Justice investigation and the grand jury investigation, had to be rejected twice by the United States court of appeals in Atlanta, I mean , if it were not for that and if it were not for other delays I refer to this case any other judge I think would have had this case tried or ready to be tried from now on