Former President Donald Trump appeared to admit to taking secret national security documents home to Mar-a-Lago in a lengthy Truth Social rant on Monday.
Trump spent much of the day lashing out at new special counsel Jack Smith, who was tapped by Attorney General Merrick Garland to oversee the Justice Department's investigations into classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago and Trump's role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Trump repeatedly falsely equated bringing the documents to his residence to the standard process the National Archives and Records Administration used to preserve presidential documents for past officeholders' presidential libraries.
While attempting to discredit Smith as a "hit man for Obama" and a "fully weaponized monster," Trump falsely insisted that he is innocent "unless the six previous Presidents did something wrong also."
"When will you invade the other Presidents' homes in search of documents, which are voluminous, which they took with them, but not nearly so openly and transparently as I did?" Trump wrote in another post, seemingly admitting to taking documents home, unlike past presidents whose documents were overseen by the National Archives.
Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed that former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush took "millions" of documents from the White House. "All of these Trump claims are false," a CNN fact-check noted last month. The National Archives issued a rare statement rejecting Trump's attacks,...
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