Rudy Offers New Story for Mar-a-Lago Docs: He Was Just Keeping Them Safe

[Nevilledog]

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Rudy Giuliani has added a new excuse to the Rolodex of reasons put forward by Trumpworld to explain the alleged classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. In an appearance on Newsmax, the former president’s attorney suggested Donald Trump did have sensitive material but was just taking it to a safe place. “They want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserve [sic] them,” he said. “Really, if you look at the Espionage Act, it’s not really about taking the documents, it’s about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. It’s not about taking them and putting them in a place that’s roughly as safe as they were in in the first place.” Among the other stories put forward by Trump and his allies: There were no classified documents; any classified documents would have been handed over if the FBI had asked; Trump had a “standing order” to declassify it all; Trump could have declassified it all if he chose; the documents were privileged; and the FBI planted evidence.

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[vlyons]

1. Yeah riiiiight -- the basement at MAR

is ever so much safer than anything the fed gov can provide.

Rudy just pulled that one right out of his butt.

[C_U_L8R]

2. What an excuse

Let try it out and rescue all that money from a bank. For its own protection, of course.

[Maeve]

3. Go home, Rudy; you're drunk eom

[spanone]

4. Well, rude one, that was not trump's job.

If I ever rob a bank, that will be my excuse.

Protecting the money.

[Raven]

5. Isn't MAL located on the ocean in a state prone to hurricanes? And he put the papers in

his basement to keep them safe? And he's telling us that this is better than the National Archives?

[tanyev]

6. That's what the National Archives are for, Rooty Tooty.

[Bayard]

7. They were IN the safe, Rudy

Where they weren't safe at all.