Former President Trump on Sunday railed against the Justice Department’s probe into his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence and he strangely tried to implicate the late former President George H.W. Bush in his scandal.
“George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them,” Trump told rallygoers. “So they’re in a bowling alley-slash-Chinese restaurant,” he added, prompting laughter from the crowd.
But Trump’s predicament is not a laughing matter says former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, who found Trump’s rant very telling, saying he sounded “guilty and scared.”
“In my experience as a prosecutor, people say stuff like this when they’re guilty and scared,” she wrote on Twitter.
In a lengthier analysis of Trump’s legal situation, Vance broke down new revelations that “will make it much easier for the Department of Justice to establish criminal intent, and will also make it inexplicable if Trump is not prosecuted.”
“Not even Trump’s minions were foolish enough to raise the ‘deal’ with government officials, but, along with reporting Trump packed up boxes himself, it goes a long way towards establishing Trump knew what he had and knew he wasn’t entitled to have it,” she wrote. “And all of this makes it still more likely that DOJ is going to have to prosecute the former president, whether it wants to or not, unless it wants to let the rule of law die on its watch.”
Vance also predicted that Trump’s new appeal to the Supreme Court will fail because overwhelming evidence contradicts his argument.
Watch Trump’s claim below:
"George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them. So they're in a bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant."
— Trump pic.twitter.com/T7sF52ilt2
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) October 9, 2022
Trump wants to know when will they prosecute Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George Bush(and look into his father), and “what about Obama” pic.twitter.com/OqHSQ36ozO
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 9, 2022
In my experience as a prosecutor, people say stuff like this when they're guilty & scared https://t.co/F3PEezjkde
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 9, 2022
