'Every time he opens his mouth, it gets worse': Legal analyst slams Trump's interview with Bret Baier
President Donald Trump gestures in total shock during a campaign rally at the Giant Center. (Shutterstock)
June 20, 2023
During a panel discussion about Black poverty and the disproportionate number of Black women who die in childbirth, MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan briefly mentioned the interview Fox News had with Donald Trump on Monday night — which resulted in people on the left mocking the former president's performance and has folks on the right scratching their heads.
Among the claims that Trump made when speaking with Fox News' Bret Baier was that he could have declassified the documents he had when he was president. It should thus continue after his presidency. Baier was asking about the recording in which Trump revealed that he "should have" declassified the document he was showing to the biographers working with Mark Meadows for his book. On the tape, Trump makes it clear that he understands he shouldn't be showing the Iran war planning document and that it was secret.
"When I said that I couldn't declassify it now, that's because I wasn't president I never made any bones about that," said Trump. 'When I'm not president, I can't declassify."
The admission is like a problem for Trump's legal team because it clarifies that he understands the law.
Mehdi Hasan asked former US Attorney Harry Litman if special counsel Jack Smith was watching interviews like these, "with popcorn."
"One-hundred percent he is, and it's totally bogus because, of course, Trump's claim was he already had declassified it in his mind just by taking it. So this is one more inculpatory statement. Every time he opens his mouth, it gets worse."
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