Former Pres. Trump and his Republican allies are minimizing and/or mischaracterizing the charges leveled against him over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Here's a fact-check of some of the claims.
The full-throated response from Trump and his staunchest supporters includes inaccurate claims about the Espionage Act and the Presidential Records Act, as wellTrump, who has been charged with 37 counts ranging from willful retention of national defense information and conspiracy to obstruct justice, has denied all wrongdoing.
"Doesn't that sound terrible?" Trump said in an apparently mocking tone. "Oh, espionage. We got a box. I got a box. The espionage." "Whether you like Trump or not, he did not commit espionage," Graham said. "He did not disseminate, leak or provide information to a foreign power or to a news organization to damage this country. He is not a spy. He's overcharged."
But according to prosecutors, Trump admitted on tape that he possessed classified documents he hadn't declassified in a transcript of an audio recording of an interview he did at his New Jersey golf club in July 2021. Trump, in Georgia this past weekend, continued to claim all the documents fell under the Presidential Records Act, which is not a criminal statute, and criticized prosecutors for not mentioning the law in the indictment.
"There is no history, practice, or provision in law for presidents to take official records with them when they leave office to sort through, such as for a two-year period as described in some reports," the administration said.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday attempted to draw comparisons between Trump's case and the classified documents found at President Joe Biden's home and office, which is also under investigation by a special counsel.
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