In posts on his social media platform and in speeches, Trump made numerous false or misleading claims about his handling of classified documents, the FBI’s conduct, the Presidential Records Act, et…
The contents of the toppled box, Trump also claimed that the photo of the toppled box did not show any “documents” at all: “The Box on the floor which was opened clearly shows there was no ‘documents,’ but rather newspapers, personal pictures, etc. WITCH HUNT!” He said in the speech in Georgia: “But the box that was turned over – it had newspapers, it had pictures, it had clippings, it had all sorts of things. Nobody saw any documents there.
The indictment says prosecutors redacted the “visible classified information” from the photo. While the indictment did not explicitly say which of the pieces of paper shown in the photo was the classified document, it is possible that it is the document with a dark rectangular bar, a common redaction method, across the top of the page.
It is theoretically possible that Trump himself did not see this document amid the mess depicted in the photo. But it’s not true that “nobody” saw any documents.In the Georgia speech, Trump said of the 37 federal charges on which he was indicted in the documents case: “They take one charge, and they turn it into 36 charges. You saw that. Everybody was amazed.
It’s worth noting that Trump could have conceivably faced far more than 31 charges for willfully retaining national defense information; the indictment says 102 documents with classification markings were found during the August 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago, 38 other such documents were returned by Trump in June 2022 in response to a subpoena, and 197 more were returned by Trump in January 2022 “after months of demands” from the National Archives and Records Administration.
In the Georgia speech, Trump made this claim: “As a former president, we were negotiating with the National Archives and Records Administration , just as every other president has done, and the next thing I knew, Mar-a-Lago was raided by gun-toting FBI agents.”These claims, too, are false in one way and highly misleading in another.
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