There are rules regarding how former Presidents should handle classified documents. Trump ignored the rules. Such as the National Archive is in charge of gathering and storing sensitive documents after a president leaves office. Once they leave office, they are required to hand over documents to the archive for safekeeping. The twice-impeached twice-indicted former President failed to obey the rules, so the Justice Department got involved.
They are not supposed to store them at a golf resort in the bathroom, a bedroom, or a ballroom where anyone could go through them. They are not supposed to share them with people that don't have a security clearance, like Kid Rock, for example.
But if you're MAGA Rep. Jim Jordan, it's OK if Trump did that. Everything he told CNN's Dana Bash was a lie.
"There are classified documents in the bathroom, in a ballroom stage, and classified information that we're talking about, information that the United States shares with its allies, critical information, strewn on the floor," Bash said. "Does that look secure to you?"
"Again, Dana, the standard is the standard," he insisted. "The President of the United States*, he can classify, and he can control access to national security information however he wants."
"That's the standard," he continued. "That's the Constitution."
"That's what the court said in Navy versus Egan in the 1988 case," he said, referencing a case that supports broad presidential authority over access to classified information in particular. However, that is about sitting Presidents, not former Presidents.
"I don't know how many more times I can say it," Jordan continued. " So if he wants to store material in a box in a bathroom if he wants to store it in a box on a stage, he can do that."
That is a lie.
"That is just what the law and the standard is," he said. "So again, I think this just underscores how political this whole thing is."
"Jack Smith, you know how political it is when they selected Jack Smith as a special counsel," he said of Smith, who is registered as an Independent.
*Trump was not the president when he moved documents to a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. - Ed.
