The sniffing is back

Created
Tue, 20/06/2023 - 23:00
Updated
Tue, 20/06/2023 - 23:00
Trump’s “I was very busy” interview with Fox News “Good morning, everyone, especially those of you who didn’t admit to committing more federal crimes on television last night,” snarks the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson. “I don’t like watching the former guy EVER – least of all on Juneteenth – but he just confessed to the crime of stealing classified documents,” tweeted Christine Pelosi Monday night. ICYMI, Wilson and Pelosi mean this Donald Trump interview with Bret Baier of Fox News. “Because I had boxes, I wanted to go through the boxes and get all of my personal things out. I don’t want to hand that over to NARA yet.  And I was very busy, as you’ve sort of seen,” Trump insisted about why he failed to return all the national defense documents he removed from the White House. But he was not too busy to order his attorneys to affirm in a sworn statement that he had complied fully with the subpoena. Also, he’s not a very good listener, is he? The sniffing is back. “His tell… whenever he’s spewing an egregious lie,” observed GottaLaff on Mastodon. Trump insists he has no other government documents. Yet there are still the missing documents special prosecutor Jack Smith’s federal indictment suggests he moved to his Bedminster, N.J. resort. Questions about them remain unanswered, perhaps so as not to distract from his prosecution in Florida. Peter Wehner writes in The Atlantic that Trump seems not to have any sense of morality. The sniffing…