“There are 33 bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago!” MAGA-boosting Rep. Byron Donalds exclaimed. “So don’t act like it’s in some random bathroom that the guests can go into. That's not true!”
accuses the former president of breaking seven federal laws, including willful retention of national defense information, engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a government record, concealing an official document, hiding a record from a federal investigation, making false statements and a scheme to conceal.
After Donalds claimed that Smith’s indictment is “plain ridiculous” because Trump should have been allowed to review his records “for up to five years,” CNN host Phil Mattingly pressed the congressman on what the indictment actually revealed. Namely, that Trump wouldn’t have been charged with any crimes if he had simply voluntarily handed the classified documents back to the National Archives and didn’t attempt to hide them.
At this point, Donalds decided to bring up the indictment including photos of documents being stored in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom and shower, insisting that there was nothing insecure about the storage location. Why? Because the ex-president’s private club has lots of bathrooms. “You guys are throwing up the pictures about they were in a bathroom or on a stage,” the pro-Trump congressman declared. “As somebody who has been to Mar-a-Lago, you can’t walk through Mar-a-Lago of your own accord because Secret Service is all over the place. So if the documents are in a place, they are in a room, depending on the time of year, you can't even get into said room.”“There are 33 bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago!” Donalds exclaimed.
“Is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time? A bathroom door locks,” McCarthy told reporters on Monday. It didn’t take long for
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