Sources now confirm that a lawyer for
former President Trump signed a letter in June asserting there was no more
close classified information stored at his Mar-a-Lago Resort in Florida.
But when the FBI executed a search warrant on Monday, agents recovered
11 sets of classified documents with at least one marked as top secret,
SCI, which is one of the highest levels of classification.
The newly unsealed court documents outlined three potential crimes that
are being investigated.
So far the DOJ has not filed any charges.
>> Now, while the DOJ has not filed any charges,
the walls do appear to be closing in on Trump.
Especially given some of the revelations we've been hearing
about what the FBI was able to obtain from his Mar- a -Lago residents.
And again, this is after Trump's lawyers had lied to federal
officials about the existence of these classified documents.
To begin with, a federal judge unsealed the warrant authorizing the search,
and an inventory of items removed from the property by federal agents.
The list showed that the FBI had retrieved 11 sets of classified documents
as part of an inquiry into potential violations of the Espionage Act.
And two other laws including obstruction of justice by the way, and that has to do
with the fact that the lawyers had lied to federal officials about the existence of
these classified documents in Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago.
And some of those documents were marked classified/TS/SCI,
which is shorthand for top secret sensitive compartmented information.
Such information is meant to be viewed only in a secure government facility,
and as you guys can imagine Mar-a-Lago not a secure government facility.
And so what kind of excuses are Republicans coming up with now?
What kind of cover are they providing for
Trump given the fact that they were demanding that the warrant be unsealed?
The warrant was unsealed, Trump's lawyers were trying to prevent it from
being unsealed but it got unsealed, Republican lawmakers got what they wanted.
And so what now, they get to see this information that they claimed
needed to be out there, but they're still providing cover.
So, Trump and his allies have argued that former President Barack Obama also
mishandled documents which by the way is an allegation quickly dismissed as
false by the National Archives.
That the judge who signed the warrant authorizing the search must have been
biased.
And that the FBI might have planted evidence,
that the documents were covered by attorney-client or
executive privilege, and that Trump had declassified the documents.
Now, in fact why don't we go to this next video?
Because it shows you exactly what you're likely to hear from Trump cronies,
one of them is on Fox News.
And he purports that these weren't actually classified documents
because Trump single handedly declassified them, duh, and
get a load of the evidence he provides, let's watch.
>> This is from President Trump's Office, it just came in a few minutes ago.
As we can all relate to everyone as we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to
bring home their work from time to time, American presidents are no different.
President Trump in order to prepare the work the next day often took
documents including classified documents to the residents.
He had a standing order, there's the word I've been looking for,
that documents removed from the Oval Office and
taken to the residents were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them.
>> Yeah, Donald Trump's term is up and he wanted to take
the work home, because Trump is such a hard worker.
Sitting in front of a TV with his executive time meant for
Fox News watching while guzzling down big gulps [LAUGH] and
eating his big macs, like what?
But that conflicts a little bit with another narrative that we're seeing from
the right-wing, and
that's the narrative regarding the FBI allegedly planting evidence, let's watch.
>> This is a joke, this is my memento, and
quite honestly I'm concerned that they may have planted something.
At this point who knows, I don't trust the government and
that's a very frightening thing as an American.
If I didn't want to be an American and
go to another this is third world stuff we've heard it, this is Cuba.
>> This is Cuba jinx, the FBI allegedly planted evidence, and
also the evidence that was planted by the FBI was declassified by Trump,
so Trump did nothing wrong.
>> Yeah, so but maybe that first guest there had the magic answer for that.
So, he says there was a standing order by Trump,
whenever I do something it's not illegal, I'm sorry that was Nixon.
Trump's was the same thing but for these circumstances,
whenever I take top secret documents that by the way are not legally
allowed to leave a certain building even if it's the president.
The previous laws do not matter, I can take them home and
they are by definition declassified, okay?
So, that way he's saying, I didn't even have to look at him,
I didn't even have to know what was in them, I have to do anything,
they're just all declassified, okay?
Maybe that could help explain how they would be declassified if the FBI
planted them.
Because if the FBI planted them, Trump never looked at him,
so he never declassified them, wrong.
There at Mar-a-Lago, if anybody brings anything over to Mar-a-Lago,
they're magically declassified.
So, the FBI while they were planting the evidence against Donald Trump,
accidentally declassified them, because of his standing order and
that's why all of this makes sense, if you're a lunatic.
>> If you're a lunatic, exactly, but like my point is they don't
even care if they have contradictory narratives to provide cover for Trump.
I mean we saw the same strategy following January 6tt, it was Antifa,
it was no, it was actually the the intelligence community with provocateurs.
Like, they'll come up with anything they can think of, it was BLM,
anything they can think of.
And even if there are contradicting narratives, doesn't matter, because
members of Trump's base will take whatever they prefer and they'll just run with it.
And so it doesn't matter, this man can literally do no wrong in their eyes,
all they need is the cover story they can run with.
And I actually wanna talk a little bit about how seriously
Trump took the mishandling of classified documents when
Hillary Clinton had a private email server, which by the way,
Hillary Clinton was investigated by the FBI.
And the reason why her home wasn't raided by the FBI is because when that
investigation was taking place during the 2016 presidential election,
an incredibly sensitive time, she was cooperating with that investigation.
Two months prior to the raid in Mar-a-Lago,
Federal officials were trying to get Trump to just hand over the classified
documents that an FBI informant alerted them to, but he refused to do so.
And if you're not gonna cooperate with an investigation,
we should live in the type of society that holds you accountable similar to
how any other ordinary American would be held accountable.
But Trump thinks he's above the law, and
that type of mentality is further enabled by Trump supporters.
And what they're calling for is this extreme power
concentrated in the executive branch for one specific person.
And that goes against everything this country is supposed to be about, but
they don't care, cuz again, as long as Daddy's in charge, they're happy.
But I also wanna remind you of how Trump was discussing
the mishandling of classified documents back in 2016.
This is the final video, it's been going viral recently for
obvious reasons, let's take a look at that.
>> On political corruption, we are going to restore honor to our government.
In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws
concerning the protection of classified information.
>> [APPLAUSE].
>> No one will be above the law.
>> Laws for thee, but not for me, and of course, by the way, that speech was in
August of 2016, and of course he was talking about Hillary Clinton there.
And in 2018 he actually made the penalties and the laws around
the mishandling of classified documents far more harsh and robust.
So, he doesn't want to basically follow the same laws that he made
much more harsh during his administration, because he thinks he's above the law.
>> Yeah, so, there's no point in arguing with the right-wingers anymore,
they just don't believe in anything.
They're nihilists, like now they're against the rule of law, and
right-wingers go, no man, no way, man, that's just set up, and
then we love rule of law, when it's passion black people across that.
I mean, we love rule of law overall, okay, all right, well, if you do, you're
supposed to say, hey, this is unfair because you're supposed to have evidence.
No, he didn't take them home, no it's okay to take him out of a facility
where the law clearly states, no one can take it out of the facility.
But they don't bother making a counter argument, they don't say, yeah,
the president has some secret authority to take it out of that building,
they don't say that.
They don't ever bother presenting any evidence, they just go,
we don't like what the law is applied to drop, okay, so you never met rule of law.
You meant, hey, I wanna be able to oppress others and
I wanna use the cops to do that.
But if you're ever gonna use the cops against me or the dawn that leads
our criminal enterprise, then I hate you and I despise the rule of law.
So what, why, what are we having a conversation?
Look guys, it's all of this is so easy to prove it by the right way.
Take the same exact thing that Donald Trump did, take those
nuclear secrets home, apply it to Biden, HUnter Biden and see what they say.
Can Hunter Biden, hey, hey, he's visiting his dad, sees the nuclear secrets in
a room that he's not supposed to take him out of, it's okay.
They say Joe Biden has a standing order to declassify anything,
he looked at it with Hunter.
Hunter took him home, and then maybe he did or didn't sell him to the Russians or
the Saudis, but hey, Hunter can take him home, right?
If Hunter Biden had done that, every Republican in the country,
its head would have exploded.
They would have already raided the capitol again, right, okay, so
now is Trump allowed to do the thing that you would have hated if Hunter Biden
did it, like yes, okay?
Well, then I can't talk to you anymore, and can I just,
I mean we're never gonna break through to them in any way.
But if there's seven Republicans left that are not insane yet, okay?
Can you at least acknowledge that him taking the nuclear secrets home was
incredibly dumb, like cuz right now there go to defense for why,
why didn't even do it?
We think we're worried that maybe he wanted to sell it because he's
the dumbest man in America.
He thought he could get away with that, he's so stupid,
he's unbelievably stupid, right?
But okay, like nobody's watching the president, you moron,
nobody's gonna notice nuclear secrets missing, dumbest man on earth.
But okay, let's say you're a Republican you think this guy's a genius,
why did he take him home?
The memento, that's the smart reason to take him home, memento, nuclear secrets?
No, nobody actually believes that, you just want him to be a dictator,
just admit it, just admit who you are.
>> Early on after the raid happened, someone close to him was quoted in one of
these major newspapers, I forget if it was the Washington Post or the New York Times.
But someone close to Trump, and he or she was someone who commented anonymously said
that they suspect that Trump might have wanted to sell these Mementos basically.
Not really fully understanding the impact of maybe selling state secrets,
nuclear codes, things like that, it's what someone who's clearly not wealthy does.
And as we've seen from Trump in so many other instances,
he's always looking for a way to make a buck.
Even if that means selling out his supporters,
even if that means selling out the country.
So, look, we can only speculate as to what he was planning on doing, but
I just want, look, I want everyone to be treated as if the law applies to them.
I don't want anyone to be held above the law, including democrats, I don't care,
I have no loyalty to democrats, I have no loyalty to any damn politician.
If they break the law, we should live in a country that
puts country above your chosen daddy, right?
And in this case, unfortunately,
you have a huge portion of the country that puts Trump ahead of everything else.
Including the country and
including the best interests of their own family, really?
>> Yeah, no, we're just better than the right-wing,
we care about facts, we care about logic.
So, if it hurts your feelings, I don't care, try to look into effect for
once in your life here, I'll prove it for the 1000s time, okay?
If Bernie took home nuclear secrets as a memento,
I would say, what are you mental, are you insane, why the hell would you do that?
That doesn't make any sense, you should be in a world of trouble for
doing that, right?
Meanwhile, because why?
Cuz we're honest, and we're rational, and
we don't have this like sexual fetish with defending one guy, right?
So, if one of our own does something stupid,
we call him out all the time on the show.
But for you guys, let's listen to the excuse that Anna said that one Republican
used there, just when I thought they couldn't get any dumber.
Trump was taking them home as a memento and
might have sold pictures of innocently.
I was gonna sell this memento, doesn't have the nuclear secrets on it?
Golly gee, I thought it was gonna get $100 for this memento,
did I get 2 billion instead, and you believe that?
No, please Republicans, Jesus Christ have some self respect, no one's that stupid.
Are you that stupid?
That you would believe an excuse like that, Jesus?