Former President Donald Trump has defended keeping boxes of classified documents, claiming he needed time to sort through them because they contained personal items, including golf shirts.
"Like every other president, I take things out," Trump told Fox News on Monday."In my case, I took it out pretty much in a hurry, but people packed it up, and we left. And I had clothing in there. I had all sorts of personal items.""I want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out," he added during the interview with host Bret Baier."I don't want to hand that over to NARA yet. And I was very busy. As you have sort of seen.
Trump repeated that special counsel Jack Smith's documents case should not be a criminal matter and that he had the power to declassify the material under the Presidential Records Act. When asked about documents that allegedly related to his administration's Iran attack plans and were discussed by the former president on tape with people without security clearances, he reiterated,"Not that I know of" and that"everything was declassified.
Trump, who in the past has had problems articulating his priorities for a second term, listed addressing the economy and inflation, border security, energy independence, woke military policies, and the country's standing abroad. He additionally declined to commit that the United States would militarily defend Taiwan.
Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, promised to try to be"less combative" if he wins a second term but said he has trouble conveying his message because news outlets are"extremely dishonest." When pressed on how he will court independent women before next year's elections, he only stressed he did not lose the last contest, adding Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner would not come back to the White House.
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