House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, along with Dana Bash on CNN Sunday, unraveled the critical “flaws” in the indictment against former President Donald Trump.
President Trump announced the indictment on Thursday, ahead of the formal indictment being lifted on Friday.of price The charges against President Trump include 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act and intentional retention of national security information, one count of “conspiracy to obstruct justice,” one count of “detaining documents and records,” and corruption. Contains 1 concealment. 1 count of “Documents or records”, 1 count of “Concealment of documents in deferred investigation”, 1 count of “Concealment plan”, 1 count of “False statements and representations”.
Bash asked Jordan to comment on parts of the indictment.
“The indictment reads: ‘Trump instructed Nauta, his personal assistant, to move the boxes before Trump’s June 2 trial. was not searched, and many documents corresponding to the May 11 subpoena could not be found.’ He claims to have instructed his aides to ignore the subpoena and help him remove classified documents, A) does that bother you, and B) if he thought he had the right to own these documents? So why did he take so much trouble to hide them?” Bash asked.
“No, I don’t care. Again, if there is no underlying crime, you can’t interfere with anything. The standard is set. The standard is what the Constitution says. Supreme Commander.” An official, the President of the United States, has the power to classify information and control access to it, the Constitution says so, the courts say so, and it cannot be blocked – if there is no underlying crime, You can’t interfere,” Jordan said.
“He is not the President of the United States—”
“That’s the fundamental flaw,” Jordan retorted.
“So you’re just taking him at his word?” asked Danna.
“When he was president, he declassified the material. He was clear—”
“But he confesses in the tape that ‘I could have declassified it as president.’ Now I can’t.” It’s on record, and he said he didn’t declassify the material, so it’s classified.”
“Dana, saying you could and saying you couldn’t is not the same as saying you couldn’t,” Jordan countered.
“He said, ‘I can’t do it right now,'” Bash said.
“I can’t do that now, because yeah, he’s not president now. But when he was president, I declassified it. He said yes,” Jordan said.
“So what he had was classified,” Bash claimed.
“Just to be clear, if he had declassified when he was President of the United States, he wouldn’t have!” (Related: ‘Trump won’t chase political opponents’: Jordan fights CNN anchor over Hillary Clinton emails)
“But he bluntly said he didn’t declassify it in this audiotape,” Bash said. “What you’re saying doesn’t make sense at first glance.”
“Dana, this is really, Dana, an affront to the rule of law. It is an affront to the consistent application of the law. No. She was Secretary Clinton. It happens to you, but nothing happens to her,” Jordan continued, before the two moved on to other issues.
Bash referred to a July 2021 call in which President Trump allegedly presented a writer, publisher and two staff members with an “attack plan” that the Pentagon arranged for him. Bash said, the indictment alleges. “I could have declassified it as president,” Trump reportedly said at the time. “I can’t do that now, but this is still a secret.”
