Trump's Lawyer Lays Out Legal Defense And Its Dumber Than You'd Think

Donald Trump's lawyer Christina Bobb laid out one of the legal defenses that they are going to use in court, and it sounds like Trump is going to end up in prison. Bobb is either intentionally misrepresenting what federal law says, or she genuinely doesn't understand it, but either way, she laid out an argument that even people who know nothing about the law could refute. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Over the weekend, Donald Trump's lawyer, Christina, Bob, decided to go ahead and lay out the legal defense that they are going to present for Donald Trump in court. And if this is the defense they're gonna go with, Donald Trump is most likely going to end up in jail. In her defense, Christina, Bob doesn't seem to understand how the law works, and I can't figure out if she is being intentionally obtuse or if she is genuinely stupid. Either way, the court is not, the court is neither of those things. So if this is what Bob is going to present, she is going to have a really difficult time ahead of her. So here is Christina Bob in her own words, explaining how Donald Trump's gonna get away with all of this. Take a look.

Um, and they say this throughout the indictment, but I'll just give one example. Paragraph four states that at 12:00 PM on January 20th, 2021, Trump ceased to be president, says a bunch of other things. And then it says, Trump was not authorized to possess or retain those classified documents that is legally and factually inaccurate. Who has the authority to determine what he's allowed to retain the president? It's Donald Trump. It's not the Department of Justice. It's not Nara, it's not the archivist, it's the President. So who has the authority to determine whether he's allowed to keep those documents? Donald Trump. So I think the entire indictment is based on very faulty legal reasoning that seems to blatantly ignore the Presidential Records Act and the only precedent that has already been set for this exact set of facts. So I, I don't know how they're gonna get around that, but it's certainly gonna be fun to, to watch and see what they try to do.

Yes, you morons the Presidential Record Act, because it has the word President in it clearly means the President gets to decide what to keep and what not to keep. Now Christina, I don't think you actually know this. I do think you are genuinely just stupid here. I don't think this is some clever defense you've come up with to try to hood wink a jury. I think you genuinely don't know. Just because it has the word presidential in the title doesn't mean that that act, which by the way, you can actually go read it, it's readily available if you Google Presidential Records Act, it'll come up and you can read the whole thing, okay? It's not hidden from anybody. And I know you have internet access. So I suggest you go ahead and do that, because what you're gonna find out is that the Presidential Records Act makes it explicitly clear that all records created by the President of the United States belong to the public, not to the President.

So first and foremost, your basic premise is wrong because it does not say that the President has the authority to decide what to keep and what not to keep. That's not even in there whatsoever. All it basically tells us is it lays out the guidelines for anything created by the President or created by another individual given to the President and how it is supposed to be properly stored at the National Archives. And that of course, it is not the property of the President of the United States that is all right there in black and white in that act.