Tuesday 20 June 2023

Donald Trump is definitely getting worried

Trump's latest interview with Fox News, normally his safe haven, showed a worried man. He is now trying to think of every kind of reason why he kept classified documents in boxes at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Way back he said he had declassified all of them in his mind and that as a departing president he was authorised to do that. But now that he has actually been indicted on 37 charges, including under the Espionage Act, he realises he has to come up with something a bit more plausible. So on Fox News he produced this idea: he was far too busy to sort out all the stuff in the boxes. Busy playing golf perhaps? The troube is he then went on to say that many of the boxes piled up in his shower room and elsewhere contained a mixture of documents and his personal stuff and he didn't want anyone else sorting the classified from the personal. Ok, it's an argument if you like. But he ruined it by saying the personal stuff included clothes, like old socks and pants and whatever. Well, we don't want the details thank you, but surely removing clothes could have been a relatively quick job? Did the FBI find all these personal items when they raided Mar-a-Lago and took away all the boxes? Were there boxers in the boxes? It's going to be a tough argument to lay before the jury when he comes to trial. He had a good go in the Fox News interview but it didn't look as if it impressed his interviewer. Trump realises he is in deep trouble and the boxers in boxes argument he hopes is going to sway the jury.

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