Former New York mayor and disgraced election litigator Rudy Giuliani has cooked up a new line of logic for Donald Trump illegally keeping top secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago home. According to Rudy, his former client was protecting the sensitive documents the FBI found at his house.
“Really, if you look at the Espionage Act, it’s not really about taking the documents,” Giuliani told Newsmax. “It’s about destroying them. Or hiding them. Or giving them to the enemy. 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.”
The new logic from Giuliani is the latest in a myriad of shifting excuses for Trump’s actions.
Eric Trump, a son of the former president, claimed his father kept “newspaper articles, pictures, notes from us.”
Trump and his allies have even suggested the FBI actually “planted” evidence as they executed a search warrant. Then, they admitted the feds found ― not planted ― sensitive documents, but that Trump had declassified them all automatically.
Now, Giuliani seems to be going a step further ― admitting the documents were sensitive, but claiming Trump was actually protecting them, and further stating that Mar-a-Lago was “roughly as safe” as the White House and other secure federal facilities.
And people could hardly believe it.
Watch Giuliani’s interview and some of the reactions below:
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
This feels like an admission…
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) August 19, 2022
And he obviously didn't actually read the Espionage Act, which prohibits "willfully retain[ing] [sensitive national defense information] and fail[ing] to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it." 18 USC § 793(e).https://t.co/SqgfNz8cBd https://t.co/f4KdBk6hd1
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) August 19, 2022
Uh, yeah, because the @USNatArchives really sucks at that stuff? https://t.co/fFRjYCOG1b
— Michael Sloane (@MichaelSloane) August 19, 2022
Bank robbers say the same thing about money. https://t.co/vVQwc7y0zo
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) August 19, 2022
OMG! The excuses are becoming more ludicrous by the day. Trump wanted to keep them safe by taking them to the place that was crawling with Chinese spies while he was prez. https://t.co/QTCxbfO0c9
— Tina #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 (@trcfwtt) August 19, 2022
Trump & Rudy Giuliani are the types of people that would steal your money, then help you look for it.
— RazzLi (@razzli_) August 19, 2022
If you thought Tucker's "Do we know if they even should have been classified?" was the most lame duck justification, here comes Rudy G with Trump was only "taking the documents and putting them in a place that's roughly as safe as the place they were in in the first place" 🤯
— Robert Lusetich (@RobertLusetich) August 19, 2022
I love the news host. Paid to be a wall flower, doesn’t challenge anything, no sign of prep or independent research. Rudy could say I’m George Washington’s anus reborn and he’d just nod and say sure .
— Mikey (@Michael24473751) August 19, 2022
He just explained to us why Trump is guilty of espionage. Thanks Rudy!
— Missy (@Whatthebus67) August 19, 2022
