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that the district attorney likely errored in exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin the u.s. use of the classified records in its criminal investigation. we agree. and there s more. the three-judge panel tears to shreds the arguments that trump and his lawyers have been making in public and in the court of law, that the records belong to him, or that somehow, at some unknown and unstated point in time, that he declassified the documents. also, from the ruling, quote, plaintiff, meaning donald trump, has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents. the plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was president. but the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. in any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring, because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal. so even ....
Starting to look like this is the year of karma for donald trump and the republicans. he s just been held accountable this week on his mismanagement of his businesses before the presidency. it looks like doj is trending towards holding him accountable for abuses of presidential power, namely with, you know, classified information. and then potentially abuses of power related to handing over and being reluctant to transition power with the january 6th investigation. so i think that all of those chickens are going to be coming home to roost. i was astounded that hannity even did the interview. i hate to say, nicole, i also watched it, so that makes at least two of us here today. and you know, it was almost like someone trying to cover up for a drunk uncle. at points hannity would interject in the interview and try to coach trump along. and i think that to a question earlier in the panel, this might ....
Absolutely blow that sort of attempt to argue that out of the water. do you think we ll continue to see that from trump s legal team? yes. so what you re starting to see, like you said, is just really judges who are examining this case really starting to scrutinize the suggestion from trump s lawyers. and from trump himself, you know, that these documents in question are declassified. now, trump, as you ve pointed out, has come out and said that he can, as a president, declassify documents just by thinking about them. obviously, that s something that is very much in dispute. but what this court is saying, in this case, is that even if he had done that, even if they hadn t shown some type of proof that trump had declassified these documents, it doesn t really matter, because that doesn t render them a personal property of the former president. it doesn t render them his. they re still the property of the government. so in this case, the court said that that argument is a red herring. ....
Start to see is increased scrutiny from the justice department on this argument and a lot of pressure from trump s lawyers to further explain their position on this particular issue. miles, sadie invoked the thought police defense. so i m going to play it. i was on the fence about whether we could handle that, as a team, as a family here. i ve made the executive decision that we can, indeed. this is an ex-president of the united states of america saying that one can think things declassified. here it is. it doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. you know, there s different people say different things. but as i understand it, there doesn t have to be if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying, it s declassified. even by thinking about it, because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it, and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make th ....
That the district attorney likely errored in exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin the u.s. use of the classified records in its criminal investigation. we agree. and there s more. the three-judge panel tears to shreds the arguments that trump and his lawyers have been making in public and in the court of law, that the records belong to him, or that somehow, at some unknown and unstated point in time, that he declassified the documents. also, from the ruling, quote, plaintiff, meaning donald trump, has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents. the plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was president. but the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. in any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring, because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal. ....