Donald Trump is out there telling ever increasingly complex and
ridiculous lies about the raid.
Take a look at this.
This is him attempting to gain control over the situation again.
Great.
It literally starts, great.
It has just been learned that the FBI and it's now safe raid of Mar-a-Lago
took boxes of privileged attorney client material and
also executive privilege material which they knowingly should not have taken.
By copy of this truth I respectfully request that these
documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken.
Thank you.
I am happy of this truth.
I hereby truth.
Give me my books.
Come on.
>> Yeah.
>> And can our descent into apocalypse be a little bit less pathetic than that.
>> It went once I have truth something.
It has become declassified.
You untruth the classification and you?
Re truth, like what are we and why are we all doing the Colbert impression of Trump.
But also it's really just the Colbert one.
But it is, you're totally right.
It's the tackiest descent into fascism.
And I wanna imagine Spain's Franco was this tacky, or like Mussolini.
I know Mussolini was a showman but was it this bad.
>> By virtue of carrier pigeon, I declare war.
I TikTok bankruptcy.
It's just pathetic.
But look of course we're laughing.
The substance of it is important and
I don't just mean the substance of the documents that he stole.
And there's more to it actually than just this because they
apparently also lied to the FBI this came out over the weekend.
At least one lawyer for Trump signed a written statement back in June of this
year asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes at Mar-a-Lago
in the storage area had been returned to the government for
different people confirmed that.
So remember the government initially was, dude,
you can't we need the documents back.
And so some of the boxes were handed over and they signed a written statement.
His lawyer saying that's it.
That's all the classified stuff.
They knew they were lying.
They did it intentionally.
So again, all this stuff about sneak attacks and
how how could they possibly do this?
They lied in written statements about the theft that they were continuing to do.
They tried to fake out the investigators by giving them some documents
while holding the real ones.
And so if you were wondering why one of the criminal statutes that was cited in
the search warrant that we were talking about on Friday is related to obstruction.
Well, this might be why they're clearly trying to
obstruct an investigation by giving some documents and then lying and
saying that that's it when they have 12 or 15 boxes of additional documents
anyway as Francesca alluded to his next defense is no, I totally declassified.
I scrunched my nose and I thought declassified,
that's not actually how it works.
It's a process that takes months and requires written documents and that's for
the documents that he legally can declassify.
I cannot stress enough.
If someone tells you, he can declassify whatever he wants.
They are not just wrong about process.
They are not just wrong about timeline.
There are many documents.
He cannot under any circumstances with any process declassify
the classification process does not just come via the president.
Many documents are classified under that and
he can declassify them if he goes through the proper steps.
But there are others that he cannot it is a massive lie.
>> Well can't you reveal how you declassified it?
Because that's classified.
>> Until I decide it's not, talk to me tomorrow.
Maybe it won't be anymore.
By virtue of this wand declassified wand order of truth.
By order of this truth.
Capital T capital.
>> Yeah.
You know they we did the top ten list of the words.
They've ruined fake news.
All that truth is already most of the way to ruined.
I hate truth now anyway.
>> Never hated truth more.
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