Rudy Giuliani was mercilessly mocked for saying Trump was just keeping classified documents safe
The FBI found so many classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago complex that they’re still searching through them – eleven days later.
to put it in legal terms, Donald Trump is fuckeder than fucked
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) August 18, 2022
Trump is still struggling to pin down a defence.
Schrödinger's Treason:
When you didn't take, accidentally took, innocently used, declassified and then took, took and then declassified, the documents that you never took and were illicitly planted in your house by the FBI – all simultaneously.
— David Reiss, M.D. (@DMRDynamics) August 13, 2022
Impressive foresight on the part of Trump to issue a “standing order” eighteen months ago to declassify the documents the FBI planted this week at Mar-a-Lago.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 13, 2022
THE FBI PLANTED THOSE DOCUMENTS BUT ALSO TRUMP HAD DECLASSIFIED THEM ANYWAY EVEN THOUGH HE DIDNT KNOW THEY WERE THERE AND OBAMA HAS 30 MILLION CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN HIS LIVING ROOM pic.twitter.com/8B1KiuRWm9
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) August 18, 2022
And it seems that Trump’s – currently suspended – legal adviser, Rudy Giuliani, has been thinking about the defence, too. This is what he’s come up with.
Rudy Giuliani tells Newsmax that Trump was just trying to preserve documents by putting them in a safe place. pic.twitter.com/tDJag4loW4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 19, 2022
“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.
They want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them.”
The subsequent mockery was visible from space.
1.
By putting the bags of money in a crawl space, the bank robber was just trying to preserve the currency by putting it in a safe place. https://t.co/LNG3P0sMQR
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) August 19, 2022
2.
Was he afraid Nicolas Cage was going to steal them with the Declaration of Independence ? https://t.co/xOz730lraN
— Portia "You're Mean" McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) August 19, 2022
3.
maybe he missed the flushing them down the toilet episodes https://t.co/Xf8L3dlGIs
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) August 19, 2022
4.
I’d say this is the worst lawyer in America but I’m pretty sure his license is suspended https://t.co/84C8fZTU8j
— Joe Patrice (@JosephPatrice) August 19, 2022
5.
Trump, the curator.
Good luck with that. https://t.co/SE2baMLOIb
— Don Van Natta Jr. (@DVNJr) August 19, 2022
6.
“Your Honor, my client was, in the interests of safety, transporting the knife away from the kitchen, where there are many obstacles. In doing so he lost his balance and the knife wound up in Mr. Smith’s back.” https://t.co/PsbOWFdhqE
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) August 19, 2022
7.
Omg. His own deranged lawyers keep burying him. https://t.co/aPElfmyHhO
— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) August 19, 2022
8.
Yeah if there's one thing the National Archive is not good at, it's preserving documents. Best to keep them in a storage room at an old resort.
— John Smith (@GOP_U) August 19, 2022
9.
Always leave it to the world's greatest lawyer to confirm on national television that you did the thing https://t.co/TU726n4PPP
— Most Resplendent Bat (@gildedbat) August 19, 2022
10.
Sure. The safest place is in a resort owned by a twice impeached former President who staged an attempted coup and is under multiple criminal investigations.
— AMY O’ (@aosprague) August 19, 2022
11.
Old uncle Buttdial McRudypants is back! For a few months Giuliani was held hostage by sanity, as he was attempting a plea bargain with DOJ. Now he is back to peddling bullshit on extremist media. Clearly DOJ refused to give him a deal. And life seems normal again 🙂 https://t.co/4IF8TUAM8f
— Tomi T Ahonen Is Still Not A Hot Republican Lawyer (@tomiahonen) August 19, 2022
Mr Giuliani should, perhaps, have done a little googling before making his comment.
"If you look at the Espionage Act, it’s not really about taking the documents, it’s about destroying them or hiding them…"🥴
Trump is literally being investigated over if he broke two other laws that bar the concealment (18 USC 2071) & destruction (18 USC 1519) of records https://t.co/3Liyn7ojrk
— Sonam Sheth (@sonam_sheth) August 19, 2022
Ron Agers said something we’ve often thought.
.@atrupar…whatever they are paying you to watch this stuff is not enough. You need a raise. This has to be killing your brain cells at this point… https://t.co/V16G2ROSg9
— Ron Agers (@SPORTWORLDORDER) August 19, 2022
We’ll let Giuliani have the last word.
this is the truest thing Rudy Giuliani has ever said pic.twitter.com/TAfeE8iffb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 19, 2022
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