Trump's own administration targeted people under the same Espionage Act that Trump is now complaining about being charged under

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with Former President Donald Trump’s obsession with his boxes of national secrets. Joy and her panel of experts discuss this and how Trump’s own administration targeted people under the very same Espionage Act that he is now complaining about being charged under. Also in this episode, we discuss how the Department of Justice finally released the damning findings of their investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, more than three years after the murder of George Floyd. Plus, be sure to check out next Tuesday’s very special edition of The ReidOut with Vice President Kamala Harris. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on The Readout.
0:06.0	Oh my god.
0:16.0	Why do you say something?
0:18.0	I mean, John's always been a little weird.
0:24.0	They should give me immediately back everything that they've taken from,
0:27.0	because it's mine.
0:28.0	It's mine.
0:30.0	A classic scene from the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind to highlight
0:34.0	Donald Trump's weird obsession with his boxes of perloigned national secrets,
0:39.0	which AIDS began referring to as his beautiful mind, material.
0:44.0	Also tonight, one of the biggest ironies in all of this,
0:46.0	how Trump's own administration aggressively targeted people
0:50.0	under the very same espionage act that Trump is complaining about being charged under.
0:55.0	And more than three years after the murder of George Floyd
0:57.0	under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer,
1:00.0	the DOJ finally releases the damning findings of their investigation into the Minneapolis PD.
1:11.0	But we begin tonight with the rantings of a twice indicted former president
1:15.0	who seems to forget that history is well-cronical and easily searched.
1:19.0	At his bed, Mr. Golf Club earlier this week,
1:22.0	where it is cited in the Special Counsel's indictment that he, on two occasions,
1:26.0	shared classified documents with people lacking security clearances,
1:30.0	Donald Trump attacked the use of the espionage act under which he is being charged.
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