Former President Donald Trump has spent the past weeks since a search warrant was executed at Mar-a-Lago raging on his social media website. One comment this morning was an all-caps declaration: "PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT!"
"The Radical Left Democrat prosecutors are illegally trying to circumvent, for purely political gain, the Presidential Record’s Act, under which I have done absolutely nothing wrong," Trump wrote. "It can not be circumvented, for me or any other President. They illegally Raided my home, and took things that should not have been taken. They even broke into my safe, an unthinkable act!"
Speaking to MSNBC about the comments, the former FBI counsel and prosecutor on special counsel Robert Mueller's team called the posts "nutty."
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"I think this is ripping from the page of, you know, what is it, 'a good defense is an offense?'" Weissmann began. "I mean it's like — this is sort of nutty. I mean, this is precisely the statute that by all evidence is, is the one he did not comply with. His counsel was telling him he did not comply with. And the reporting is that he intentionally not only took these documents, but then, for months and months and months, hid them from the [National] Archives and the Department of Justice. So for him to be crying Presidential Records Act is like a criminal citing a criminal statute that they violated. It seems nonsensical."
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'Like a criminal citing a criminal statute they violated': legal expert mocks Trump's social media youtu.be
