Donald Trump insists he had a right under the Presidential Records Act to abscond to Mar-a-Lago with classified documents, and MSNBC's Lisa Rubin said he might have drawn the only judge who might entertain that argument.
The former president has been indicted on 40 felony charges in the case, which is being overseen by the Trump-appointed federal judge Aileen Cannon, and Rubin told "Morning Joe" that his immunity argument would almost certainly fail in any other court.
"Nobody has ever claimed before the Presidential Records Act somehow immunizes them from criminal prosecution," Rubin said. "You know, Trump is famous for a shorthand about this argument. He says the Clinton 'socks' case – that's audio tapes that Bill Clinton made when he was president with the historian Taylor Branch. The audio tapes were akin to diaries, which are exempt from the Presidential Records Act. It was not a determination that they were his personal records and, therefore, Trump can say, 'Hey, these were mine to begin with and I was president when I took them, therefore there is no criminal liability here.'"
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"Donald Trump is dreaming," Rubin said of that argument. "Again, his audience is Aileen Cannon who, what Donald Trump wants, she usually provides."
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