DONALD TRUMP SAID he “absolutely” plans to testify in the federal government’s case against him regarding classified documents he removed from the White House. “I’m allowed to do whatever I want … I’m allowed to do everything I did,” the former president told conservative podcast host Hugh Hewitt.

In an interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” that dropped Wednesday, the host asked Trump, “Did you direct anyone to move the boxes, Mr. President? Did you tell anyone to move the boxes?” referring to the boxes of more than 300 classified documents the federal government seized last year from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

“I don’t talk about anything. You know why? Because I’m allowed to do whatever I want. I come under the Presidential Records Act,” Trump replied, while also taking a quick detour to bash Hewitt. “I’m not telling you. You know, every time I talk to you, ‘Oh, I have a breaking story.’ You don’t have any story. I come under the Presidential Records Act. I’m allowed to do everything I did.”

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    The Presidential Records Act requires that all presidential records be transferred into the custody of the National Archives at the end of the administration.

    • @[email protected]
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      -181 year ago

      That doesn’t make it a crime to keep a few papers as a souvenir. Biden did the same thing btw he kept souvenir papers in the garage with his cool car. They all do it.

      • GreenBottles
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        101 year ago

        yes it does make it a crime 100%, that’s the whole reason Trump’s being charged with stealing classified documents because it violates the presidential records act that’s how this shit works

          • Actaeon
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            81 year ago

            I don’t think that idiom means what you think it means.

            • @[email protected]
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              -71 year ago

              What’s good for the goose is good for the gander and pretty soon sleepy Joe’s goose will be cooked!

              • GreenBottles
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                31 year ago

                it’s funny that you think that this is smart

          • GreenBottles
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            11 year ago

            never mind that Giant mountain of evidence and things we watched on live TV and just keep burying your head in the sand

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          -41 year ago

          Nope, sorry losers and haters but Trump did nothing wrong at all. He got impeached for making a perfect phone call and now this? Charged for reading a few papers on the toilet? Too bad he’s gonna beat the rap and win the presidency again