Why did Trump do it?
The Byron York Show
Radio America
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Byron, New Yorkshire, the Know-it-State Jet Podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | We'd like to get right into it. |
| 0:08.6 | And what we're going to get into today is the question of former President Trump and |
| 0:14.1 | all those documents that he had in his possession that are now the basis of all these criminal |
| 0:21.6 | charges against him. |
| 0:25.0 | And I want to go with this from a little different angle here. |
| 0:29.0 | I mean, there are a lot of questions surrounding this indictment of Trump. |
| 0:35.0 | You know, of course, it alleges that after he left the White House, he kept secret national |
| 0:39.6 | defense information that he was not legally allowed to possess. |
| 0:43.8 | Now, some of these questions are like, did Trump, who was the President of the United States, |
| 0:49.1 | have the authority to decide what to keep and what to give to the archives after he left |
| 0:54.1 | office? |
| 0:56.3 | Another question, just how sensitive were the documents that he kept? |
| 1:01.5 | Another question. |
| 1:02.5 | And even if Trump lacked the specific authority, and even if the papers were really sensitive, |
| 1:09.5 | has the Biden Justice Department overreached by charging Trump with 37 felonies, not 36, |
| 1:18.3 | not 38, 37 felonies, okay. |
| 1:22.8 | Now those are all questions that some of which we talked about, but underlying all of |
| 1:27.8 | those is a more fundamental question, which is, why did Trump keep all that stuff in the |
| 1:36.8 | first place? |
| 1:37.8 | I mean, whether put aside, whether it was legal or not, why did he keep all that stuff? |
| 1:42.4 | What was the thing? |
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