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Bruce » 02 Jul 2023, 5:21 am » wrote: ↑

02 Jul 2023, 5:21 am

Trump has been indicted in Florida, and unfortunately for him he won’t get to use “what about Hunter’s laptop” as a defense.

What he can, and has already used, is the “bravado” defense.

——Former President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that he was not showing off classified documents in an audio clip first published by CNN in which he referred to “highly confidential” material and “secret information” that he could no longer declassify.
 “I would say it was bravado, if you want to know the truth, it was bravado,” Trump said in an interview aboard his plane with Semafor and ABC News. “I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents. I didn’t have any documents.”
 The latest comments suggested a new potential legal argument from the former president: That he was overselling the material he was showing to an aide and people working on a biography of former chief of staff Mark Meadows in the recording, a transcript of which featured heavily in his recent federal indictment.“I just held up a whole pile of — my desk is loaded up with papers. I have papers from 25 different things,” he said, adding he kept relevant news articles about topics like Iran on hand.
 At one point, Trump gestured to the seat next to him on the plane, where a stack of various papers — newspapers, copies of his speech, printouts of articles — sat. He grabbed some from the pile and placed them in front of him, moving them around as he spoke and offering up a physical reenactment of what he said was occurring on the audio tape.——

Judging by other women in Trump’s orbit, those two in the room at Mari Largo might be extremely useful to his defense, and the ratings of the trial.

I can’t remember the details of the stories I spun in the reflection of greenish blue eyes suspended over freckled cheeks, over forty years ago.

But if I was on Trump’s jury I’d cut him all the slack in the world, over that indiscretion .