We'll certainly focus on that little story, but what I suggest to you as journalists

is that there's two really bigger stories that you might want to report on and even do some research on.

Because these are big issues this is not about me

the one of the big stories is about what is really an unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers and the doctrine of executive

privilege is a critical tool dating back to George Washington of effective presidential decision

making. When I walk in that prison today,

the justice system, such as it is, will have done a crippling blow

for the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege.

The second and related story has to do with the emergence of lawfare and the partisan weaponization of our justice system,

which we have seen come to this country with a vengeance since the coming of Donald John Trump as president.

And that keeps getting worse.

So let me walk you through those two stories.

And again, I'm hoping as journalists, you will do some background, some research.

I'm asking you to fact check everything I say today. You will do some background, some research.

I'm asking you to fact-check everything I say today and write the bigger stories here, which I think are the important ones.

So let's talk about some facts here. I am the first senior White House. Okay, right there. That was historic 19 March of the

year of a Lord 2024. Dr. Peter Navarro, that is right outside the prison in Miami. And Peter,

what I always admired about you, totally unflappable. People got

understand, when you're about to step into prison, because you don't know what's on the other

side, you're calm, collective, it's just like you're right at Pebble Beach today, just talking

about an EU trade deal. You walk through the separation of powers, you walk through

executive privilege, and you talk about you're the first senior member of a White House staff

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