The raid was to retrieve damaging documents related to the Russian collusion scandal, declassified by Trump but not released by the Biden Justice Department. Trump's statement on declassification was discussed, comparing it to a previous case involving Clinton's records. The Presidential Records Act was mentioned, highlighting differences in its application to Trump.
Speaker 0: And at the end of the day, as we've discussed from day 1, Steve, the whole point of this rate was because president Trump declassified the crossfire hurricane Russian collusion documents through a presidential memo on January 19, 2021. The Biden Justice Department grabbed their feet and never publicly released these documents. Trump had them. They were worried that Trump was going to release them. They know that there are these documents are very damaging for Obama, Biden, Hillary, the FBI, the intel community because they show that they cooked up the Russian collusion, scandal, the Russian collusion hoax to politically hurt Trump in 2016, and it continued to hurt him when he was the president.
And so they had to go get back these documents, and that was the purpose of this raid. They went to a biased judge, magistrate judge Bruce Reinhardt. They got, an illegal, general warrants, and they went and got 11,000 documents. And How does how does this play out? And president Trump gave an interview on Handy.
He said if he declassified anything at any time including in his head, it was declassified. Do you buy that? Well, he didn't just say in his head. He talked about his next words out of his mouth were by taking it to Mar a Lago, he declassified it. That's exactly right.
If you remember, we talked about the 2012 case involving Clinton Sartore. He had 8 years of highly classified recordings of his presidency and his software. Not that in a judicial watch sued to get these records And the Obama judge correctly held that by president putting these records to him when he left office, these classified records with him, the mere action of taking them makes them, essentially declassified and personal. That's a that's right. That's what that's how the Presidential Records Act works unless you're president Trump and you're Trump's arranged and then the Presidential Records Act is doesn't apply to president Trump.
Okay. I wanna thank you for coming on and doing that.