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mixed in with a mess of whole other stuff. i find that odd. some kind affjunk drawer happening because, look, some of the nation s most important secrets potentially and again we don t know what is in these documents. we still don t know. we know the type of document, the classification. bullet the fact a document of this potential could be mixed in with clothes and gifts and press clippings, do you see possibly an innocent explanation interest this? let s think about a benefit of the doubt. can one be extended? not at all. i mean there is absolutely no good reason for donald trump to have taken any of this. i mean, there s no justification for why he d have to use it. i mean it just these are documents that belong to the government. they should have been left behind. he has not come up with any justification as to why he had the right to have these documents. he claimed at one point recently that he declassified them. but he never made that argument in the cour ....
But he never made that argument in the course of, oh, two years or year and a half of wrangling back and forth with national archives officials, doj officials before they finally executed the search warrant. so it seems like that argument s just been made up after the fact. and he s come up with no explanation. and i might add i don t recall one being given to the judge in the most recent filing about this special master in the declassification process. you have to wonder, bradley, and think about this certainly it would have been easier to just give documents back, not taken them in the first place. but the idea of retaining counsel, going through all this, having the back and forth, just begs the question as to why. why fight so hard for these documents? but i do want to point out there are some empty folders in here. empty folders that are marked classified. and i don t know about you but people mostly have you probably have manila folders somewhere in ....