Trump delivers all-caps Truth Social tirade as his lawyers plead with DOJ not to charge him
June 05, 2023
Former President Donald Trump on Monday uncorked a furious all-caps tirade on his Truth Social network as his lawyers reportedly were meeting with the United States Department of Justice to make their case against charging him with crimes.
Although Trump has not yet been charged with any crimes related to his alleged decision to both stash top-secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and to also refuse to return them after receiving a lawful subpoena for them, he nonetheless expressed bewilderment and fury that he could soon be indicted in the case.
"HOW CAN DOJ POSSIBLY CHARGE ME, WHO DID NOTHING WRONG, WHEN NO OTHER PRESIDENT’S WERE CHARGED, WHEN JOE BIDEN WON’T BE CHARGED FOR ANYTHING, INCLUDING THE FACT THAT HE HAS 1,850 BOXES, MUCH OF IT CLASSIFIED, AND SOME DATING BACK TO HIS SENATE DAY WHEN EVEN DEMOCRAT SENATORS ARE SHOCKED," Trump wrote. "ALSO, PRESIDENT CLINTON HAD DOCUMENTS, AND WON IN COURT. CROOKED HILLARY DELETED 33,000 EMAILS, MANY CLASSIFIED, AND WASN’T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING CHARGED! ONLY TRUMP - THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!"
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Although other prominent politicians, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence, have been found with classified documents at their personal properties, legal experts have said that Trump faces criminal exposure that the others did not given the evidence prosecutors have accumulated that he sought to obstruct efforts by the government to get them back.
Trump's possession of the documents first became public last summer when the FBI conducted executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago to retrieve boxes full of government documents, some of which reportedly included some highly sensitive national security secrets.