Tonight on The Readout.

Whatever documents are present and decides to take with him, he has the right to do so.

It's an absolute right.

This is the law.

Nope.

Gonna have to correct you there, Donald.

That is in fact not the law, which is how you ended up in a court of law just yesterday.

Plus, gaslighting efforts kick into high gear on the right with false equivalencies flying

fast and furious all over Fox.

And later the great Rachel Maddo joins me to talk about Trump's indictment and her amazing

new podcast that takes listeners back in time to news events eerily similar to those

we are experiencing today.

We begin tonight on Donald Trump's birthday.

He turned 77 years old today.

Happy birthday you twice indicted, twice impeached, found libel for sexual abuse former president.

I'm sure it's an interesting one.

A day of reflection perhaps on what matters in life like family, good health, community,

or not.

I mean, this is Donald Trump we're talking about.

So what matters in life are things, gold toilets, celebrity chachki collections, gold bathroom,

chandeliers, gold stuff on the walls in the gold ballroom or the Shaquille O'Neill sneaker

he bragged about to a Wall Street Journal reporter back in 2015.

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