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6:32Now PlayingDonald Trump went absolutely off the walls after Fox News analyst Karl Rove said on the air that President Biden's "document scandal" was nowhere near as serious or as bad as Trump's problems. Trump took to Truth Social to not only attack Rove, but to also launch a wild conspiracy based on misinformation that Trump doesn't even fully understand. Farron Cousins explains the latest tantrum by the former President.
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So this week after, of course, it was revealed that there were, in fact, um, about 10, I believe it is, classified documents found at the office of a think tank that President Biden used as Vice President, occasionally as his own office. Uh, 10 classified documents found there back in November. They turned him over, Biden's lawyers, turned them over to the, uh, N A R A. Everything's okay. They are investigating to make sure there was nothing malicious about it, but it's really a big nothing because they complied and did everything they were supposed to compared to Donald Trump, who repeatedly lied to the federal government about taking the documents. And when Carl Rove, the legendary Republican strategist turned, Fox News analyst pointed that out on air this week saying, hell yeah, this is really nothing for Biden. Definitely nowhere near what Trump did. Trump's is way Mo uh, way worse when Carl Rove said that on the air.
Trump obviously got. And when he posted a rant, then I will read to you in just a moment. Donald Trump seemed confused about what the hell was even going on anyway, like he's getting basic facts wrong, and I, I I'm assuming he's doing it on purpose to make Biden seem like more of a criminal than Trump is. But here is what Trump said, and I will completely blow it outta the water in just a moment. But here's the statement. First again, is untruth social. Carl Rove was as usual wrong when he stated that. Then VP Biden's highly confidential papers, which were in his office for many years, were in any way similar to the Secret Service, guarded and otherwise very secure Mar-a-Lago Papers. Biden was not then President had no power to declassify and came under the very tough Federal Records Act. I come under the much more generous Presidential Records Act, was having a productive discussions with radical left in a RA and did everything right, a giant scam.
Now, he continues in a moment, and this is where he gets into more conspiratorial, definitely confused type prep. But, uh, let's, let's talk about that for a minute. You, you say you were complying with the request from the National Archives and Records Administration. They begged you for a year to just give the documents back. Your lawyers possibly at your own direction lied on the forms. The official forms is basically the same as lying under oath that everything had been returned. Then they subpoenaed the surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago, got their hands on that, realized you were lying to them. Then they had to send the FBI to go recover the rest of the documents after you and your team repeatedly lied to them about having them in the first place. Keep in mind, Trump taking these documents is really not why he's under investigation, because he was given a full year to just return the documents.
They knew he had them. All they said was, we want 'em back. Please give them back, and this is over. So had Trump done that at any point in the 12 months prior to the FBI going to Mar-a-Lago, it would've been the end of it. There'd be no investigation. Like that's the thing people have to remember. The N A R A did not want to investigate. They didn't wanna make this a federal case. They just wanted their crap back and Trump refused to do it. Biden, on the other hand, they're cleaning out that old office, stumble across these things, oh God, send it over to N A R A, do what they're supposed to do. So he's probably not in trouble and he shouldn't be. And if Trump had done the same thing, he wouldn't be in trouble either. But anyway, he continues and gets far more conspiratorial. Biden's documents are highly confidential. Many pertain to Ukraine where Hunter was raking in the dough and funded by China, which gave 55 million to Biden through Penn and probably had easy access, was the old crow's boss, China loving Cocoa Chow involved, just asking.
So you had a conspiracy theory, you've got overt racism. Then of course you've got the just asking so that you don't end up getting sued for defamation. Such a, a weasy little conservative tactic.
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