{"id":1947187,"date":"2023-06-14T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T18:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-bedford-says-two-things-can-be-true-trump-was-targeted-but-he-made-it-easy\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T18:54:10","slug":"sarah-bedford-says-two-things-can-be-true-trump-was-targeted-but-he-made-it-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-bedford-says-two-things-can-be-true-trump-was-targeted-but-he-made-it-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Bedford: Trump was targeted, but he made it easy."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fsarah-bedford-says-two-things-can-be-true-trump-was-targeted-but-he-made-it-easy%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=1947187&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>The Washington Examiner: Federal Charges Against Trump May Face Uphill Battle<\/h2>\n<p>The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Sarah Bedford speculated on Wednesday that the federal charges levied against former President Donald Trump in relation to his handling of classified documents may be relatively damning, but prosecutors could face an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolinas-first-black-lt-gov-leads-fight-against-radical-curriculum\/\" title=\"North Carolina\u2019s First Black Lt. Gov. Leads Fight Against Radical Curriculum\">uphill battle<\/a> as it becomes increasingly clear that he was targeted with more vigor than others in several investigations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think two things can be true,&#8221; she told Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network. &#8220;Yes, the Justice Department pretty clearly was targeting President Trump &#8230; [and] Trump did, in fact, make it easy. I mean it seems that he was boasting even about the fact that he had held on to sensitive documents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>European Parliament Passes AI Legislation in Step Toward First Rulebook<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I think prosecutors here are in a little bit of a &#8216;boy who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-bedford-says-two-things-can-be-true-trump-was-targeted-but-he-made-it-easy\/\" title=\"Sarah Bedford: Trump was targeted, but he made it easy.\">cried wolf&#8217; situation<\/a>, even if these charges are more serious than any of the legal peril that Trump has been in before,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bedford, voters across the country \u2014 not solely Trump&#8217;s supporters \u2014 &#8220;are sort of tuning it out at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s particularly hard, she said, for opponents of Trump to claim that the federal indictment is particularly disqualifying because &#8220;there\u2019s so much evidence that prosecutors, the legal system, has gone after him before, for unsubstantiated things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They took a lot more aggressive investigative steps against him than against any other figure who had been accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/devin-nunes-blasts-nsa-director-paul-nakasone-over-political-targeting-of-former-trump-official-michael-ellis\/\" title=\"Devin Nunes Blasts NSA Director Paul Nakasone over Political Targeting of Former Trump Official Michael Ellis\">mishandling classified information<\/a>,&#8221; Bedford said. &#8220;Nobody slapped wires on Hillary Clinton\u2019s aides and sent them into the office to try to find out why she really had the server.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;For a rival to argue that this case, not Russia, not the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records\">hush money payments<\/a>, not the Ukraine phone call, but this one, this time, is disqualifying, I think is a really difficult case to make,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former president was arraigned on Tuesday after being charged with 37 counts by the Department of Justice, including 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>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Sarah Bedford suggested that the federal charges against ex-President Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents could be significant. 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