Scandal-plagued former President Donald Trump is facing down what is undeniably the biggest mountain of legal trouble he has ever seen in his life. However, instead of putting his nose to the ground and hoping beyond hope for a plea deal that doesn’t see life in prison, Trump is doing the one and only thing he seems to know how to do in situations such as this — digging his own hole deeper and deeper, making things that much worse for himself.
Fox News is giving the country a sneak peek at the interview Trump recently sat for with host Bret Baier that’s scheduled to air on Monday night. Just based on the teaser clips alone, it’s obvious that Trump’s most recent Fox interview was every bit as unhinged as we’ve come to expect from him. But there was one particular declaration included in Fox’s interview that really took us back.
For reasons unbeknownst to us, Fox News decided to tease the upcoming interview with a portion showing the ex-president declaring that the only way that the National Archives and Records Administration could get back the classified government documents he took with him on his way out of the White House, was to grovel and beg him, “Please, please, please…”
“The only way NARA could ever get this stuff, this back, would be ‘please, please, please, could we have it back?'” Trump viciously told the Fox host in the clip of the upcoming interview. Baier was quick to point out to the ex-president that the NARA did, in fact, ask for the materials back. Several times.
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“Because they have no — we were talking,” Trump shot back, igniting some crossfire between the two before Baier was eventually able to regain the high ground and note that “then they [NARA] went to DOJ to subpoena you to get the –”
Trump immediately interrupted, “Which they’ve never done before.”
Mediaite reports the following transcript of the conversation from that point:
BAIER: Why not just hand them over then?
TRUMP: Because I had boxes, I want to go through the boxes and get all 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.
BAIER: Yeah, but according to the indictment, you then tell this aide to move to other locations after telling your lawyers to say you’d fully complied with the subpoena when you hadn’t.
TRUMP: Before I send boxes over I have to take all of my things out. These boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things.”
Fox conducted a very brief interview with Baier on the heels of his interview with Trump, in which the Fox anchor notes that the ex-president, “denies flatly some of the things that are specifically laid out in the indictment.” Trump’s vehement denial of the charges against him includes the accusation that he stole and retained a specific document that outlined war plans pertaining to Iran as well as the allegation that he admitted to having never declassified that top-secret document.
Donald Trump was recently indicted on a staggering 37 charges in connection to DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the infamous document scandal, all of which are related to Trump’s unlawful possession and retention of classified government materials, obstruction of the Special Counsel’s investigation, and multiple alleged violations of the Espionage Act. Following the public unsealing of Smith’s 37-count indictment, even many conservative legal experts have deemed the charges against the 45th president as conclusively damning.
See the Fox teaser for the upcoming interview here:
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