“I declassified everything”
Anyone sane and watching New York Attorney General Tish James’ Wednesday press conference announcing a lawsuit against Donald Trump knew immediately that TFG, his family and close associates in the Trump Organization were not going to have a good day. Naturally, Fox News quickly cut away from the James press conference.
The day got worse later when a unanimous, 3-judge federal appeals court panel issued a scathingly polite dismissal of “the decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon …to broadly intervene in the Justice Department’s investigation.” The decision allowed the DOJ to continue its investigation into what harm to the national interest may have occurred from Trump’s taking national defense information from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in January 2021. Trump’s argument that he declassified the documents is “a red herring,” the court concluded, and irrelevant to the investigation at hand “because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal.”
But Trump, the MAGA cult, and Fox News love their red herrings. Trump gave Sean Hannity an interview Wednesday night in which he kept fish-mongering the declassification argument. It was crazed and incoherent.
“I declassified everything,” Trump said, just by thinking about it, he offered before suggesting the FBI might have been looking in Mar-a-Lago for Hillary Clinton’s emails.
In the Trump era, I’ve often suggested to friends that if they ever wondered what it was like to live through a mass insanity, wonder no more.
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