...he plead the 5th 440 times. Before that? Damned hard to say. So, status quo ante:2/ Not bad legal advice. Any legal advice. His current lawyers are an unknown lawyer from New Jersey and a former OAN host. But it seems unlikely even they’re advising him on this. It all suggests a complete implosion and panic in Trumpworld.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 13, 2022
Furthermore:Trump and his allies have returned to his preferred crisis communications strategy: say a whole bunch of nonsense in rapid succession.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 13, 2022
A roundup of some of the lies, conspiracy theories and absurd whataboutism we’ve heard after the FBI search this week: https://t.co/eNOjYmUFqw
They want to make the decisive point the status of classification, so that they can say “If it’s only purloined records, that’s not a big deal.” Dozens of boxes of stolen presidential records are a big deal, classified or not. This is a STOLEN PROPERTY CASE 2/
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) August 13, 2022
Not really a defense. And even his excuses keep coming back to this brick wall:NYT: Trump "told close associates that he regarded some presidential documents as his own personal property."
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) August 13, 2022
WaPo:
"Trump resisted handing over some of the boxes ... He eventually agreed to hand over SOME...'giving them what HE believed they were entitled to,'" said an adviser. pic.twitter.com/6OH3HbSLNp
I’m confused: How can Trump be so sure that he declassified the evidence that the FBI planted?
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 13, 2022
— Alex Dupler (@alexdupler) August 13, 2022
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