Trump Lawyer Offers Dumbest Explanation Ever For Stolen Classified Document Folder

Move over, Alina Habba - A different Donald Trump lawyer might be taking the mantle of the dumbest member of the former President's legal team. Trump lawyer Timothy Parlatore claimed during a recent CNN interview that the former President was simply using an empty classified briefing folder to block out light at night while he was trying to sleep. That might be the lamest excuse for the stolen documents we've seen to date, as Farron Cousins explains.

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While there's absolutely no doubt about the fact that Donald Trump took classified documents that he wasn't supposed to have. The big question ever since this was revealed many months ago, is why, why did you have these documents to begin with? Well, luckily thanks to, uh, a Trump lawyer who spoke to CNN recently, we now know why Donald Trump had these classified documents. According to this lawyer, Timothy Parlour Trump had them to block out the lights while he sleeps at night. I wish I was making that up. I wish this were a joke. It is not. Here is what the lawyer said on CNN or to cnn. He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed and it has a blue light on it and it keeps him up at night. So he took the manila folder and put it over so it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night. It's just this folder. It says Classified evening summary on it. It's not a classification marking, it's not anything that is controlled in any way. There is nothing illegal about it.

All right. Case closed. Right? I guess, I guess that's the end of that. We have finally gotten to the bottom of why he had the, the folders and the documents. I guess it's just to block out any lights that he doesn't like so he can get a good night's sleep. I mean, heck, a good night's sleep is essential to health. And how dare we deny Donald Trump the ability to, to have a good night's sleep because a little blue light is, uh, is bothering him. Now, I would like more information about the blue light. I, I, I think that's kind of, you know, the lawyer, uh, look, you're really giving Alina Haba run for the money about being the dumbest Trump lawyer with this explanation, by the way. But I, I want more info on the blue light. Okay? I want to know why there is a blue light that just stays on, like, cuz if it just stays on all the time, clearly it doesn't serve any kind of alert purpose.

You know, if you check into a hotel and yeah, they, they have the old landline telephones. They'll have a blinking red light, like when you have a message. But if you check the message, the light goes away. So that light serves a purpose. If it has a light that just stays on all the time and doesn't, you know, blink in a certain way when there's a problem, what's the point of the light itself? Why can't you just take a little black piece of electrical tape, put it over that, or again, if it serves no purpose, why can't you go buy a new phone that doesn't have a light? May maybe just move the phone to a different location. You don't need a classified folder to block the light. I mean, there's literally a million different things you could do. You could take a regular piece of paper, somebody could have gone down to Walmart, bought

A, a manila envelope and just set it. O said, here, here you go. We're gonna give this folder back to the National archives cuz it's theirs, but I got you a new folder, and this one's blue. So you can, you can have it and you'll know that blue folder goes on blue light. So definitely want more answers about that. But I just gotta say again, this is, this is the dumbest argument I think I've ever heard. And, uh, par Laur, by the way, went a little further. He said, what you've seen here and also in the Biden and Pence investigations is that the White House does not have proper procedures for handling classified information. And these documents, when they get packed up and sent out, when people leave office, they do keep showing up, if you will. Oh, okay. So it's not just Trump's fault.

I mean, like, there's, there's no protocol except for the protocol that all of the past presidents had also followed. So, I mean, you know, there's, there's that, I mean, there is a, there is a set of rules, but you know, maybe we, maybe you weren't briefed on the rules. Maybe you don't, I don't know. But I do know one thing if you end up, if your client ends up getting charged with any criminal activity for this and, and you go to court and make these arguments,