It’s not news that Trump engages in bravado. It is news that he admits it, and only legal necessity made him do so. From Jonathan Turley at jonathanturley.org:
Below is my column in the Messenger on former President Donald Trump revealing his defense to the damaging audiotape cited in the federal indictment. The defense could come at a cost at trial, but it is a calculated risk for the court of public opinion.
Here is the column:
Since the arraignment, much of the talk about the federal indictment of Donald Trump has focused on the audiotape on which the former president refers to what he said were classified plans to attack Iran. When it was first reported, I noted that the only cognizable defense would be “bravado,” an admission that Trump was exaggerating but that the document was not what he claimed.
Trump has now adopted that defense in an interview with Semafor and with ABC News. The problem is that bravado can come at a cost.
On the audiotape, Trump is apparently motioning to material on his desk and tells two interviewers: “I’ll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t it amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this. This is off the record, but they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him. We looked at some. This wasn’t done by me. All sorts of stuff, pages long, look. Let’s see here. It’s that amazing. This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is, like, highly confidential, secret. This is secret information. But look, look at this. You attack.”
Is it some of that 4-D chess?
At least he wasn’t out there saying I’m sitting with the vepeezy of the steezy and you better have my money.
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