Was he planning to hold the documents hostage for money?

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Wed, 05/04/2023 - 07:30
Updated
Wed, 05/04/2023 - 07:30
Hmmm. Trump claimed that he had the “right” to take home documents in a recent Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, who repeatedly tried to help the former president without success. “I’ve known you for decades,” Hannity said. “I can’t imagine you ever saying, ‘Bring me some of the boxes that we brought back from the White House. I’d like to look at them.’ Did you ever do that?” “I would have the right to do that,” Trump responded. “There’s nothing wrong with it.” “But I know you,” Hannity said. “I don’t think you would do it.” “I don’t have a lot of time, but I would have the right to do that,” Trump retorted. “I would do that.” “Remember this,” Trump added. “This is the Presidential Records Act. I have the right to take stuff.” And check this out: Legal experts said new revelations about obstruction evidence collected by special counsel Jack Smith’s team could land former President Donald Trump in deep legal trouble. Smith’s team has obtained evidence that Trump personally rummaged through boxes of secret government documents he took home to Mar-a-Lago and has been “asking witnesses if Trump showed classified documents, including maps, to political donors,” The Washington Post reported on Sunday. Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal told MSNBC that the evidence could be “devastating” for Trump’s defense. “It ties Trump directly to the scheme,” he said. “If it holds up and, of course, we don’t know — and Trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence and all that, but…