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Trump’s Fox Interview
Earlier this week, former President Donald Trump sat for a one-on-one interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. Trump took aim at top Democrats and his opponents in the Republican primary, all while blasting the prosecutions against him as politically motivated.
Reporting from The Right: Trump thinks he is ‘100%’ in the clear: Bret Baier The Five, Fox News
Reporting from The Left: 'Does anybody in America believe this?' Christie slams Trump claims in Fox News interview Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA TODAY
From The Flag: Meanwhile, Trump maintains a strong lead in most GOP primary polls, despite his legal challenges. Here’s more from both sides.
RIGHT-LEANING SENTIMENT
Trump Talks Indictment, With Campaign Seemingly an Afterthought
Former President Trump remains defiant regarding his latest indictment, but also lacks answers regarding a key voting group.
A key aspect of the indictment alleges Trump showed classified documents to visitors at Mar-A-Lago, something he denies.
The DOJ alleges Trump was refusing to return documents, but he maintains both sides were negotiating over the issue.
What did Donald Trump say on Fox News? D. Hunter Schwarz, Deseret News: "Former President Donald Trump denied wrongdoing in connection with his latest indictment... 'Like every other president, I take things out and in my case I took it out pretty much in a hurry but people packed it up and we left,' Trump said. 'I had clothing in there I had all sorts of personal items in there, much, much stuff.' Baier asked Trump why he didn’t hand over documents that the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, asked for, and Trump said it was 'because I had boxes I wanted to go through' and 'get all my personal things out.' ... If Trump faces off against President Joe Biden again, his chances could depend on winning voters back who turned on him during his last campaign. But he didn’t have a clear answer when asked how to win over at least one group: independent female voters in the suburbs."
The four key takeaways from Trump's Fox News interview Jack Birle, Washington Examiner: "Trump responded to a claim in the indictment that the former president allegedly revealed a 'plan of attack' he said was prepared by the Department of Defense while he was in office in July 2021. Trump allegedly told the group the information was 'highly classified' and that 'as president, I could have declassified it,' but 'now, I can’t.' Trump denied that what he was talking about in the incident was a document, saying he has copies of newspapers and magazines, but did confirm that he was unable to declassify sensitive materials after leaving the White House. 'There was no document. That was a massive amount of papers and everything else, talking about Iran and other things. And it may have been held up or may not. That was not a document. I didn’t have any document per se,' Trump said."
One more opinion piece from the Right: Trump Defends Hesitation to Return Allegedly Classified Documents Brittany Bernstein, National Review
LEFT-LEANING SENTIMENT
Trump Steps in It Again, as Republicans Refuse To Accept Reality
Trump seemed deeply uneasy and more on edge than usual during the interview, even though it was on his “home turf” with Fox News.
Democrats need to continually show a spotlight on Republicans’ refusal to accept legal decisions that are politically inconvenient.
Trump offered a confusing, and likely damaging, defense of his latest indictment during this latest interview.
Donald Trump Seems to Be Afraid, Very Afraid Tom Nichols, The Atlantic: "Donald Trump is scared. ... (He) was jittery and combative, but that’s not so unusual; the former president tends to answer even softball questions as if they’re accusations. Typically, when confronted with more serious challenges, he deploys his peculiar political glossolalia, verbal fusillades formed out of names and places and phrases plucked from jumbled memories, old talking points, and barely remembered briefings. But something was different this time. Trump seemed not himself—or at least not the character he’s been presenting to the public for most of his life. Instead, he seemed deeply uneasy in an environment where he should have felt at home. The hosts of Fox News have been, for the most part, staunch supporters of the 45th president... echoing his lies about how the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. ... And yet, by the end of the interview, Trump was calling Fox a 'hostile' network."
Trump's confession on Fox News should prompt Democrats to step up Greg Sargent, Washington Post Opinion: "Trump went on Fox News and made numerous confessions about his hoarding of classified documents. The next morning, news broke that Hunter Biden reached a tentative deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to tax charges, which Republicans quickly denounced as law enforcement covering up more serious crimes. These developments are part of the same story: In both, Republicans refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of law enforcement outcomes that don’t serve their political interests. Democrats need to be more aggressive in pointing out the perverse reality of this GOP posture — and in explaining how incompatible it is with the rule of law itself. ... As legal experts pointed out, Trump might have incriminated himself by admitting to holding boxes that also allegedly included extraordinarily sensitive national security secrets. Yet Trump insists the indictment is a witch hunt, and Republicans continue to cast his charges as inherently illegitimate, regardless of what the facts show."
One more opinion piece from the Left: Trump's Fox News Interview a Defense Attorney's Nightmare Li Zhou, Vox
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How the Classified Docs Case Has Impacted Trump
Polling data from CNN suggests Trump’s support among primary voters slipped a bit following his latest indictment related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Just under half (47%) of Republican voters say Trump is their first choice in the primary, which is down from 53% in May.
His favorability also fell from 77% to 67%.
And the number who say “they would not support him for the nomination under any circumstances” has climbed from 16% in May to 23% this month.
How much did the classified documents change your view of Trump? |
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“Teflon Don” Sentenced to Life, Take Wednesday Off, Escaping China
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Today I learned that more creative people report greater trauma in their childhood.
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