Trump is flailing about with his excuses: Neal Katyal, former Solicitor General of the US, pointed out a problem with those excuses. Trump is both claiming the FBI planted the documents, and that he declassified all the Top Secret Compartmentalized documents when he took them to his residence to study for the next day. But how could both be true? This is like a hack lawyer who claims his client was not at the scene of the crime AND the prosecution's version of the crime is incorrect. AKA flinging mud at the wall and hoping some will stick.

He also pointed out that the President can't just declassify a document for himself. It gets declassified for everybody, and has to be marked as declassified. Those documents the FBI seized were NOT marked as declassified! The copies of them in the secure storage sites are not marked as declassified either.

Then there is the ridiculous notion that Donald Trump ever "studied" anything at all. He didn't even read or listen to his daily briefings.


Educating anyone benefits everyone.