Donald Trump Plays The Blame Game Over FBI Findings

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Former President Donald Trump is opting to go on the offensive regarding the document seizure. First, he claimed to be the innocent victim of persecution and fell back on two catchphrases. On his Truth Social feed, (as reported on Twitter), he blasted the all-caps accusation “WITCH HUNT,” and followed up with a longer post. “Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more,” he wrote in part.

Later, Trump appeared to spread a conspiracy theory. Because no lawyers or other potential witnesses were allowed into Mar-a-Lago during the raid, Trump repeated his accusations against the FBI, writing, “Planting information anyone?”

Then, Trump forged a what-about argument, with his White House predecessor as the target. One of several Truth Social posts on the subject (via Salon) read, “I continue to ask, what happened to the 33 Million pages of documents taken to Chicago by President Obama? The Fake News Media refuses to talk about that. They want it CANCELED!” That approach fell flat, though, since those papers were not only declassified, they were taken by the National Archives, per CNN.

On August 12, Trump stated that he actually did declassify the documents in question. This may not be enough to vindicate him, however. The New York Times explains that it is still a crime to “[take] gold hoard material with restricted national-security information.”

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