{"id":1946245,"date":"2023-06-14T02:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T06:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-outlines-legal-strategy-in-post-arraignment-speech\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T02:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T06:58:33","slug":"trump-outlines-legal-strategy-in-post-arraignment-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-outlines-legal-strategy-in-post-arraignment-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump explains legal plan after arraignment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-outlines-legal-strategy-in-post-arraignment-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1946245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Trump Outlines Legal Defense Against Indictment<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump used a significant portion of his speech in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Tuesday to lay out the legal defense his team is likely to take against an indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump spoke to a crowd of supporters and family members hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-pleads-not-guilty-in-historic-federal-case_5329816.html\">pleading not guilty<\/a> to 37 counts of charges linked to his handling of classified documents. He decried the indictment as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-outlines-legal-strategy-in-post-arraignment-speech\/\" title=\"Trump explains legal plan after arraignment.\">political hit job meant<\/a> to derail his bid for the White House.<\/p>\n<h3>Presidential Records Act of 1987<\/h3>\n<p>In outlining his defense, the former president particularly focused on the Presidential Records Act of 1987. Trump suggested that the act gives the president discretion to determine which records are personal and which are presidential, and, as a result, belong to the public.<\/p>\n<p>While the documents Trump is being charged with illegally retaining do not fit the criteria to be personal records under the act, Trump referred to a 2012 district court ruling in a case concerning audio tapes former President Bill Clinton kept after leaving the White House. In that decision, Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that even though Clinton\u2019s tapes should have been classified as presidential records and turned over to the National Archives, the national archivist had the power to reclassify them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the president,\u201d Jackson wrote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5331481\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/via.placeholder.com\/640x360\" alt=\"Donald Trump visits the Versailles restaurant in the Little Havana neighborhood after being arraigned at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse in Miami, Florida, on June 13, 2023.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Trump visits the Versailles restaurant in the Little Havana neighborhood after being arraigned at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse in Miami, Florida, on June 13, 2023. (Stephanie Keith\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump had previously hinted at this line of defense, jokingly referring to the lawsuit by Judicial Watch as the \u201cClinton socks\u201d case, because Clinton had kept the tapes of his interviews with historian Taylor Branch stored in a sock drawer. Unlike the Clinton tapes, the documents in Trump\u2019s possession had classification markers. It remains to be seen how the former president\u2019s defense team will construct their argument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow just think of it, in other words, whatever documents the president decides to take with him, he has the right to do so. It\u2019s an absolute right. This is the law,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>In an indictment unsealed on June 9, the special counsel charged Trump with 31 counts of willful retention of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-rips-trump-for-doing-the-same-thing-the-obama-administration-did\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Rips Trump For Doing The Same Thing The Obama Administration Did\">national defense information<\/a> and six counts including conspiracy to obstruct justice, concealing documents, and false statements.<\/p>\n<div class=\"coverage\">\n\t\t<strong>Related Coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_list\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-pleads-not-guilty-in-historic-federal-case_5329816.html\"><span>Trump Pleads Not Guilty in Historic Federal Case<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"article\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/in-depth-trump-indictment-rests-on-untested-legal-theory-experts-say_5330496.html\"><span>IN-DEPTH: Trump Indictment Rests on Untested Legal Theory, Experts Say<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Trump pleaded not guilty to all of the charges during an appearance in federal court in Miami earlier on Tuesday. The presiding judge prohibited Trump from speaking to his co-defendant, Walt Nauta, about the case.<\/p>\n<h3>Attorney-Client Privilege<\/h3>\n<p>Trump also drew attention to the special counsel\u2019s piercing of Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorney-client-privilege-federal-prosecutors-for-sdny-working-to-seize-rudy-giulianis-emails\/\" title=\"\u201cAttorney-Client Privilege?\u201d \u2013 Federal Prosecutors for SDNY Working to Seize Rudy Giuliani\u2019s Emails\">attorney-client privilege<\/a> to obtain the notes taken by his attorney, M. Evan Corcoran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they did to lawyers, what they have done to our lawyers, our lawyers, all of our lawyers, they\u2019ve done things that were absolutely horrible and unthinkable,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5324718\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/via.placeholder.com\/640x360\" alt=\"Special counsel Jack Smith speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington on June 9, 2023.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special counsel Jack Smith speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington on June 9, 2023. (Mandel Ngan\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jack Smith was appointed as the special counsel days after Trump announced his presidential candidacy in November last year. Trump has framed the investigation and the indictment that followed as a politically motivated attack meant to keep him from the presidential ballot in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden White House declined to comment on the case. President Joe Biden has said that he learned of the indictment from the news media.<\/p>\n<h3>DOJ Treatment of Trump<\/h3>\n<p>Democrats and Trump\u2019s critics have challenged the notion that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has treated Trump unfairly. They point to the timeline of the case, which shows the government giving Trump several opportunities to turn in the records prior to the raid of Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let\u2019s not lie about his treatment by DOJ. They\u2019v<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump outlined his legal defense against an indictment by special counsel Jack Smith during a speech in Bedminster, New Jersey. 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