Maddow Calls Trump’s Taped Admission He Had Classified Documents ‘A Prosecutor’s Dream’ (Video)
thewrap.comon 37 counts related to his illegal possession of classified documents after leaving the white house and also the lengths he went to deceive government officials about it, it was reported that there were recordings backing the prosecution’s case.Specifically, Trump has for nearly a year claimed that he had the power to declassify the documents in his possession even after leaving the White House (he did not), and that he could do so just by thinking about it (also untrue).
But in the recording in question, published by CNN on Monday, Trump, while showing classified documents to an aide who is not authorized to see them, admits that he was no longer able to declassify them, and also indicated that he knew he wasn’t supposed to possess them.
Read more here.“That’s crazy, right?” Maddow said Monday night after playing the full 2-minute clip. “I mean, if you were inventing cartoon level ‘you did it wrong’ allegations for somebody mishandling classified information, you’d dream this up as a hypothetical to teach 1L law students, right? ‘Imagine there was a tape in which the which the accused said, now I’m not supposed to be showing this to you.
It’s really secret but look here it is.'”“It’s a prosecutors dream to have something like this on tape,” Maddow continued. “But all we could see in the indictment was prosecutors’ allegation that this tape existed, and that on this tape, Trump said those things.”“And, as an allegation, it’s damning.
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