Speaker 1: after Trump was arrested, booked and arraigned for 37 felony counts related
to classified documents that include obstruction and other crimes.
Trump flew back to his resort resort, New Jersey, Bedminster, and he gave a speech.
In this speech, Donald Trump actually admitted to some of the crimes he is accused of misstated
the law under which he is being prosecuted wrongly, said other people also committed
the same crimes, which, by the way, it's not really a defense to say other people have
also committed these crimes.
It's just another form of an admission and maybe most importantly, really seemed dejected
and as though he is extraordinarily scared, which reportedly he is really a speech for
the ages which contained this instant classic line from Trump.
Speaker 2: I did everything right and they indicted me.
Speaker 1: It is truly beyond parody, but it is really an important speech because this
speech is admissible.
Legal experts have written overnight that even if Donald Trump doesn't testify in this
trial or what may be an eventual trial, the speech he gave last night is admissible as
evidence.
And in last night's speech, he actually admits to much of what he is accused of doing.
Let's dive right in.
Speaker 3: The sham indictment put forward by the Biden administration included stage
photographs of boxes at Mar a Lago.
Many people have asked me why I had these boxes.
Why did you want them?
Speaker 1: So remember, he says the boxes are staged, but actually they are his boxes.
And now he explains why.
Speaker 3: And so in addition to having every right under the Presidential Records Act is
that these boxes were containing all types of personal belongings, many, many things,
shirts and shoes and everything, as can be seen in the picture where someone, not me,
I wonder who it might have been dumped.
One of the very neatly arranged boxes all over the floor.
They were full of newspapers, press clippings, thousands of pictures, thousands and thousands
of White House pictures.
The White House photographer, some are with us today.
They took so many pictures and we saved all of them.
And they were in those boxes clothing, memorabilia and much, much more.
I hadn't had a chance to go through all the boxes.
It's a long, tedious job.
Takes a long time.
Speaker 1: So understand that amidst the bad audio and the sniffing from Trump, there are
a bunch of different defenses there.
It's hard to keep track.
He he declassified them when he was president, except this doesn't have to do when he was
president.
The FBI planted them.
He called them planted boxes.
But ultimately, what Trump is saying is it was my right to have those.
I simply hadn't gone through them yet because I was really busy.
That is an admission to some of the critical facts that I don't believe his lawyers are
even looking to stipulate if this eventually goes to trial.
Trump digging his own hole.
Trump then referring to his rights as president of the United States.
But again, it's really important to understand Trump's getting himself into more trouble
here because he is not indicted for his conduct as president of the United States.
Speaker 3: The president enjoys unconstrained authority to make decisions regarding the
disposal of documents.
Speaker 1: That's the problem, is this is not for things Trump did as president.
And we know he didn't declassify those documents because there's audio of him saying these
are classified documents from July of 2021 unconstrained.
Speaker 3: To make that decision.
Neither the archivist nor Congress has the authority to veto the president's decision.
The Presidential Records Act does not confer any mandatory or even discretionary authority
on the archivist to classify records.
Speaker 1: Folks.
Speaker 3: Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the President of the United
States.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was not president when he committed the alleged acts for which
he has been indicted.
This is it seems like just Trump reading stuff off of one of the very teleprompters he criticizes
others for using.
It seems like it's just more of that.
But legal experts have looked at that 37 second video clip and come away realizing Trump is
admitting to crimes and he is also stating law.
Presidential records.
I guess we can call it war.
That is not the law under which he is charged.
And Jack Smith, the special prosecutor, has Trump on an on a recording saying that the
things he had were still classified, meaning he knew he did not declassify them.
This is going to become evidence after bemoaning the politically motivated prosecution against
him in which he claims Joe Biden was involved, even though there was no evidence Joe Biden
was involved in it.
Trump actually says out loud, out loud.
If he becomes president, he will go after the Bidens for politically motivated reasons.
Look at this.
Speaker 3: I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in
the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden and the entire Biden crime family,
to name a special prosecutor.
Speaker 1: Now, you understand that people in the background are yelling, lock him up
about Joe Biden.
These are the people who claim Trump wasn't given due process and they want Biden locked
up, absent forget about an indictment, absent any evidence of criminal intent, which we
will get back to you.
Speaker 3: And all others involved with the destruction of our elections, our borders
and our country itself, they're destroying our country.
And when I'm reelected and we will get reelected, we have no choice.
We're not going to have a country.
Anymore.
I will totally obliterate the deep state.
We will obliterate.
Speaker 1: The deep state.
So Trump going conspiratorial.
But if you are on the right and you are claiming that we are a banana republic because Trump
was indicted.
Trump is straight up saying we're going to go after the Bidens period.
Full stop, no due process, no evidence.
Trump also referred to the documents in question as his own papers and his own documents.
They are not that I mean, by law, that is not what they are.
These are the government's documents.
These are the people's documents.
TRUMP Just look, these are my documents.
They're not your documents.
Speaker 3: Charging a former president of the United States under the Espionage Act
of 1917 wasn't meant for this.
An act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do, and threatening me
with 400 years in prison for possessing my own presidential papers, which just about
every other president has done.
Speaker 1: They are not Trump's papers.
They are not Trump's papers.
Sort of mob like Trump attacking the wife of special prosecutor Jack Smith, just going
after his wife.
Speaker 3: He's a raging and uncontrolled Trump hater, as is his wife, who also happened
to be the producer of that Michelle Obama puff piece.
It was total puff piece.
This is the guy you have got.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Going after the wife of the prosecutor claiming that the DOJ evidence was staged and no other
president.
Speaker 3: Even those who kept far more documents that he has ever been even investigated, let
alone charged with a crime because the sham indictment put forward by the Biden administration
included staged photographs of boxes at Mar a Lago.
Many people have asked me why I had these boxes.
Speaker 1: Why there is no evidence that the photographs were staged.
There is no evidence that Joe Biden did a damn thing.
And then lastly, moving on to Biden.
And Hillary did it, too, which is not a defense.
Speaker 3: This Corvette is story so proud of that car.
There was no security and the door was left open.
Most of the time it was open.
All of those classified documents, all of those documents strewn all over the floor,
piled up like junk, unlike me, who had absolute declassification authority as President, Joe
Biden as vice president, had no authority to declassify and no right to possess.
Speaker 1: So the normal stuff, I don't have to play the whole thing for you.
But blaming Hillary and Biden for doing the same thing isn't a defense, and it's also
not true.
First and foremost, the Hillary Clinton circumstances.
There was an investigation which concluded that there was a complete and total lack of
criminal intent.
Remember that the indictment against Trump involves willfully retaining these documents,
refusing to give them back, lying about having them, obstructing, going out of his way.
It also includes recordings with alleged conversations where Trump actually signals that he knows
exactly that those documents are classified.
It is simply not an analogous situation whatsoever to Hillary Clinton's.
As far as Biden, there's a special counsel investigating that.
I mean, we we just haven't gotten an answer one way or the other.
If Biden did something wrong, indict him for all I care.
But as of right now, saying Biden and Hillary did it too, is partially premature, completely
incorrect, and dramatically misstates what Trump has even been indicted for.
Trump's speech will likely be evidence against him, if you can imagine.
It is clear Trump is not taking advice from his own lawyers to the extent that he can
even retain lawyers.
After the break, let's see what the Trump supporters think about all
of this.
We
were on the ground yesterday in Miami, Florida.