John Kelly 'blew up' at Trump in the Oval Office, packed up his belongings and threatened to quit: report
April 7, 2018, 5:15 PM ET
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'Dunce' Marjorie Taylor Greene roasted for Jan. 6 plan that could be great for Democrats
June 01, 2023
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and GOP leadership have a new plan to try to bring down Democrats: release the raw footage from the January 6 insurrection to even more people, including right-wing reporter John Solomon, pro-Trump writer Julie Kelly, and an unidentified "third source," in the hope the footage will exonerate the Capitol rioters.
This strategy is ill-fated, wrote Ja'han Jones for MSNBC's TheReidout Blog, calling Greene a "political dunce" who hasn't thought through any of this.
"You may remember [House Speaker Kevin] McCarthy previously released Jan. 6 footage to then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who tried to downplay the threat posed by rioters by cherry-picking parts that don’t show violence. Here, we seem to have a similar scenario," wrote Jones. "The initial release was largely seen as a dud. And Carlson, whose team had hyped the footage as exculpatory for conservatives, seemingly acknowledged this by allowing the story to fall by the wayside. Nonetheless, it looks like Greene is pining for another go?"
Indeed, all that really came about from Carlson's release of out-of-context January 6 footage was that several Capitol rioters cited the footage in their trials, believing it to be exculpatory, when not only was it no such thing, the footage was already available to them in discovery.
The problem with these releases of footage, said Jones, is that "The assumption that the broad American public is interested in reliving Jan. 6 — one of the most traumatic and damaging political attacks in U.S. history — is the type of logic you’d expect from an alien who has never spent a moment interacting with actual humans in the United States. Or, perhaps, it’s just the twisted logic of Marjorie Taylor Greene."
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In other words, the plan could actually backfire and benefit Democrats, possibly by reminding voters that rioters tried to violently overthrow the 2020 election on behalf of Greene's party.
"When a right-wing Twitter account claimed Republicans were reneging on their promise to release the footage to the public, Greene offered a deranged excuse. People could use facial recognition software to identify people who were on the Capitol grounds that day and then 'ruin their lives,' she claimed," wrote Jones. "With Republicans like these, Democrats hardly need political advisers. Just paint Marjorie Taylor Greene as the brain of the operation and watch America shriek in terror."
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Trump was asked about potentially incriminating audio in town hall, and he pivoted to Biden
June 01, 2023
Donald Trump on Thursday described the latest revelation that federal prosecutors are in possession of an audio recording in which the former president’s is heard admitting he understood he wasn’t allowed to keep the documents as “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.”
Fox News’ Sean Hannity hosted the town hall, which was Thursday night after being recorded in Clive, Iowa, earlier in the day.
The town hall was the second in which Trump appeared in a single month. The previous one was held in New Hampshire May 10 with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
The audience cheered “U.S.A.” at the former president as he entered the auditorium.
Hannity asked Trump if he knew anything about the report that the special counsel is in possession of an audio recording in which the ex-president acknowledged that he understood that the documents he had were classified.
“Do you know who this call may be with?” Hannity asked Trump.
“No, I don’t know anything about it,” Trump said.
“Everything I did was right. We have the Presidential Records Act, which I abided by 100%”
Trump quickly pivoted to making unfounded allegations that President Joe Biden committed more egregious offenses handling documents when he was vice president.
“Biden has 1,850 boxes with a lot of classified stuff that he's not supposed to have in his case,” Trump said.
“I have the right to declassify as president. He's got 18,150 boxes that he doesn't want anyone to see. He had seven or eight boxes in Chinatown in Washington D.C. where nobody even speaks English in Chinatown."
“Chinatown is very, it's in favor of China. And he has boxes in Chinatown. They took those boxes and they sent him to Boston to his lawyer so his lawyer could look through them, and probably do things that you're not supposed to do.”
Trump insisted the allegations against him are “about election interference.”
“It's a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time,” Trump said.
“It's a hoax, and it has to do more than anything else with trying to interfere with the election.”
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Trump added: “I've been going through this for seven years, Russia, Russia, Russia, all of it. The Mueller Report, which was no collusion, after two and a half years, there was no collusion with Russia. It was the worst thing.
“(Vladimir) Putin would say, ‘You know they say you like me. You are the worst guy that we've ever had to deal with.’”
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'Height of irresponsibility': ex-Trump aide says new audio proves he is lying about docs
June 01, 2023
Former Donald Trump White House adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin tore into her former boss on Thursday for his conduct in the Mar-a-Lago classified document theft investigation.
Trump has long claimed he has blanket declassification authority, but new reports show he was caught on audio discussing a highly classified document laying out an attack plan against Iran, and admitting he doesn't have full authority to declassify military secrets — something that should come as no surprise, Griffin argued, because she saw firsthand that Trump understood this.
"I mean, we talked about the former president wanting to keep documents, or wanting to keep some documents," said anchor Anderson Cooper. "Does it make sense to you what's — what we now learned yesterday?"
"This latest reporting is probably the most damning around the classified documents. I mean, obviously, the former president's argument hinged on this notion of A), he could declassify anything, and that anything he had in his possession has been declassified. But he obviously acknowledges that he knows he simply can't declassify things. There is a process. I've said before when I was serving in the West Wing, there were a number of times he wanted to declassify documents, and he ran through the hoops of trying to do that, talking to his national security adviser, his then-director of national intelligence."
In fact, Griffin continued, "I can think in a number of cases where we weren't able to declassify something because he knows of the hoops he would have to jump through. He knows how the process works."
"What you also can't forget in this — we're not talking about a keepsake like a love letter from Kim Jong-un, as absurd as that sounds," said Griffin. "We're talking about war plans with Iran. Something that is actionable U.S. intelligence that has broad impact that is sitting at a country club in New Jersey. This is the height of irresponsibility, recklessness. And if we have any laws governing how we handle classified documents, this is a rock-solid case."
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