Trump Now Says He Was Legally Allowed To Destroy White House Documents

Donald Trump is in full damage control mode, and his latest defense is about as dumb as you would imagine. Trump now claims that "based on legal rulings" he was totally allowed to destroy and walk off with his records from the White House, a claim that has left many legal scholars scratching their heads. There are no legal rulings in his favor, and he's just digging himself deeper into a hole, as Farron Cousins explains.

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Donald Trump denies, flushing, anything down the toilet. Other than, of course the things that are supposed to be flushed down the toilet. He did not. He says, flush any printed documents, no printer paper at all, made it down the toilet. Totally fake news by the New York times, Maggie Haberman. But see that's this story. We knew Trump was gonna deny this. You could have video of him doing it and he'd still deny it. What is interesting, however, is that he is clearly in damage control mode. So he is trying out a new defense, you know, not just for the alleged flushing of the documents, but also the 15 boxes of documents that were or found admir Malago recently. And according to Donald Trump, he was totally allowed to do that, even though he's legally not allowed to do that. Here's what Trump had to say in a recent statement. In actuality, I've been told I was under no obligation to give the us material based on various legal rulings that have been made over the years,

Which ones cuz legal scholars that have already commented on this are scratching their head saying we don't know of any legal ruling in recent years. That would say, nah, forget about that whole presidential records act thing. You can keep those, this seem important to you. We're gonna let you do that. Including the classified information that is now believed to have, uh, been in, in those documents. Yeah, totally. That that's yours now, buddy. And I think you spit on it a little bit when you were talking. So you just go ahead and keep that. No, that's not a thing. The, the legal rulings he's talking about, don't actually insist. But what he did do is he just admitted it. See, that's the problem. When you have such an idiotic legal defense that you don't know what you're doing and you accidentally admit to the crime itself. See, I had talked about in, in previous videos, the fact that it's technically not clear, although we all pretty much know, but it was technically not clear who took the documents, how they ended up there. Was it just some staffer who didn't know any better, said throw these on the moving truck.

He, he just admitted it. You just admitted to federal crime. So I hope merit Garland was listening to that. I hope he's paying attention. United States, department of justice, the man is now admitted to it. Not only did we find the smoking gun, you know, so to speak at Mor Lago, but here he is saying like, yeah, I did it. And I was allowed to do it. What are you gonna do? How, how, how is he not in handcuffs? Like legitimately? How is this man not in handcuffs? How is the DOJ just keeping their mouth shut? We don't

Wanna get involved in it because the penalty of course is you get barred from ever holding public office again. And plenty of reports have come out in the back half of this week saying the DOJ is reluctant to pursue an investigation because they understand the backlash they would get from Republicans. If they have to BARR Trump from holding office again, oh, woe is fricking me DOJ. It's still your job to do it. And oh no, Republicans are gonna be mad that Trump can't run again. Oh, Fri. Well, the majority of the country is gonna be celebrating. We're gonna have massive parties. We have noise makers and champagne and all kinds of fancy little Lord door or doves that are Trump. Can't run again. Parties. I promise you that hell I might even throw one myself, but not because Trump can't run again. But because it would mean that the DOJ finally got off their asses and did what the they're supposed to do. The man has admitted it and he is got a legally bumbling excuse saying I was legally allowed to do it. No, you're not. But he says he did it in that excuse. So now there's no excuse for the DOJ to not be investigating him.