We are Americans and we will prevail, if God is willing.” We will use every process, every court, every legislature, every state, every local, every voice, and every law, to restore our nation. Andy Biggs : “We mourn yet another example of the weaponization of our gov’t against its people. a sitting president of the United States try to throw his opponent into jail.”Īrizona Rep. Josh Hawley : “We are seeing for the first time in American history. The Biden administration is exacting revenge on Trump Seth Wenig / AP fileīut Trump has now been charged with mishandling classified documents and attempting to obstruct the government’s efforts to retrieve them, which experts say are more serious allegations than Clinton ever faced. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York in 2022. In 2016, James Comey, who was then FBI director, said that Clinton was “ extremely careless” in her handling of classified information but that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against her and that her actions did not rise to the level of criminality or warrant charges. The FBI investigated Clinton for months over her use of a private email server as secretary of state to determine whether she mishandled classified information.
Hillary has committed more crimes than just about anyone and here she is selling hats and laughing.” The two-tiered justice system in our nation is completely out of control. Lauren Boebert : “Yesterday, Hillary Clinton had the nerve to sell merchandise as she gloated about Trump being indicted. Beth Van Duyne : “As President, Trump could declassify anything he wanted.”Ĭolorado Rep. Trump could declassify anything he wanted Stealthy government spies like the ones seen in Hollywood thrillers are charged under the Espionage Act, but so too is an individual who “ willfully retains” national defense information and then fails to return it to the government officials when they attempt to recover it. The indictment accuses Trump of illegally retaining documents that detail some of America's most closely guarded secrets and "endeavoring" to obstruct the government’s efforts to retrieve them, among other charges. Thirty-one of the 37 charges against Trump stem from the Espionage Act of 1917.
He did not disseminate, leak or provide information to a foreign power or to a news organization to damage this country. Whether you like Trump or not, he did not commit espionage. Lindsey Graham : “Espionage charges are absolutely ridiculous. Trump to show off.”įox News host Mark Levin : “There’s not one syllable of evidence in here that any information under the Espionage Act was passed to any spies, to any enemies, to any foreign countries - not one.” The FBI recovered the missing documents when it raided Mar-a-Lago, so presumably there are no more secret attack plans for Mr. Trump did not accept a bribe or betray secrets to Russia. The WSJ Editorial Board : “However cavalier he was with classified files, Mr. via APĪnd while most bathroom doors do lock, they usually lock from the inside. This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The indictment even featured a color photo of more than two dozen boxes on the bathroom’s marble floor.
The federal indictment alleges that Trump stored classified documents "in various locations around Mar-a-Lago, including in an office space, his bedroom and the particularly unconventional storage areas of a bathroom and a shower.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy : “Is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time? A bathroom door locks.”
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