Bombshell links Trump to moving classified docs before DOJ search

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Ari Melber, MS NOW

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jason Johnson hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, May 25 and reports on a new bombshell Washington Post piece that links Trump to moving of documents one day before the DOJ search of Mar-a-Lago. Plus, Ron DeSantis' disastrous Twitter presidential campaign announcement, and updates on the debt ceiling fight. Renato Mariotti, Eugene Robinson, Fernand Amandi and Rachael Bade join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the beat.
0:01.0	I'm Jason Johnson in for Auremelber.
0:03.6	We start with breaking news, legal heat and golfing Donald Trump.
0:10.5	Donald Trump is in some real trouble in the classified documents probe as more legal vets
0:15.0	predict an indictment is coming.
0:16.9	Even jail time, new exclusive bombshell reporting from the Washington Post.
0:21.8	Trump workers reportedly moving a Mar-Lago box one day before the DOJ came for the documents.
0:28.7	And allegedly carried out a quote, dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers even before
0:33.4	his office received the May 2022 subpoena.
0:36.6	This new information showing calculated moves by the Trump team directly undercuts Trump's
0:42.8	argument that he didn't think he was doing anything wrong.
0:45.5	Remember, told Sean Hannity, he declassified the documents with his mind.
0:51.5	I did declass it.
0:53.5	Okay.
0:54.5	Is there a process?
0:55.9	What was your process to declass it?
0:57.2	It doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it.
1:00.1	There's different people say different things.
1:01.9	But as I understand it, it doesn't have to be.
1:03.5	If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's
1:07.5	declassified, even by thinking about it.
1:10.5	Yeah, he's not Professor X.
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