Jack Smith slams Trump's desperate spin on classified documents case

Special Counsel Jack Smith is rejecting Donald Trump's attempts to claim political interference in the classified documents case. Marc Elias joins The Weekend to discuss.


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[refusedone]

The only “slam” I want to hear is the prison door…enough of this hype, LOCK HIM UP

[vincentdesapio]

In addition to the legal cases against Trump, can we remember one other thing? Trump was a lousy President? His handling of covid was the most incompetent handling of an emergency by a President since H. Hoover and the Great Depression. The US with 5 percent of the world's population had 20 percent of covid infections and deaths when Trump was President.

[CoolBreezeHeals]

Cannon deserves to spend some time in jail herself.

[lauryd.coultas]

The idea that anyone would have complete immunity is just stupid, and an aggravating waste of time to talk about.

[Tracy]

The scary part is that we may never know what Trump did with the top secret documents that were in all those empty folders or the nature of their contents.

[charlesbrewer]

Wouldn't it be refreshing if America had a court system that would actually allow these important cases to come to trial in a timely manner?

[ralphfolden]

Why has this rogue judge been allowed to stall this case. Judges are supposed be to be impartial.

[patriciasturdevant]

Traitor Trump should at the least be in prison for the rest of his miserable life.

[lesleyghostdragon]

Marc Elias! Excellent, democracy-defending guest 👏👏👏
Thank you 🙏

[Sarcasticron]

Not a raid! The way Cannon is working so hard to prevent Trump from being held accountable for stealing classified documents, I keep wondering if maybe it's not just Trump who she's trying to help.

[TrumpGoByeBye]

I'm a senior and I had no idea our government had such a poorly functioning legal system. Fix it.

[floridacrackerguitartips]

Trump's shenanigans with the classified documents would get any of us in a holding cell waiting for trial. Trump getting convicted for this one will be a no brainer for the jury!

[delmonicofarquhar]

It's ridiculous at every level that Trump could have any chance to run for office.

[clairerobinson]

I enjoy listening to Marc Elias. Smart man.

[mark-xxlt]

Insanity!! Anyone else would have beenjailed immediately.

[Rodsuper]

They need to do this as he committed crimes of stealing HIGH CLASSIFY NATIONAL SECRETS EVEN WHEN HE ATTORNEYS TOLD HIM HE COULD NOT TAKE THEM BUT HE

[Aliens.Say.FDT.]

Trump's a miracle worker. He turned me and my entire family into liberal-leaning independents. We were all registered Republicans.

[uphvugm]

And if Trump's treasonous treatment of classified documents had been implemented by anyone else, they would already have been tried, convicted, and sentenced. Definitely preferential treatment here.

[Liz-nudr]

Good to see Marc Elias on your channel.🙂

[RO-djdp]

In 2020 we showed Trump we no longer want him in our White House but the dummy Trump didn't listen so we will have to show him again in 2024 that we mean it.