EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump defended former Vice President Pence after it used to be printed that categorized data had been found out in his Indiana house, whilst additionally telling Fox News that even supposing he has been “the most transparent” with the investigation into data discovered at Mar-a-Lago, there are “two sets of justice” in comparison to Biden’s case.
Pence knowledgeable Congress Tuesday that he found out paperwork bearing categorized markings in his Carmel, Indiana, house on Jan. 16 from his time as vice chairman.
“Mike Pence is an innocent man,” Trump posted on his Truth Social Tuesday afternoon, which he additionally referred to in an interview with Fox News Digital. “He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life.”
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE DISCOVERED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN INDIANA HOME
Former President Donald Trump and previous President Mike Pence pose in combination on a degree.
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He added: “Leave him alone!!!”
During an unique interview with Fox News Digital Tuesday, Trump mirrored at the FBI’s remarkable raid of his Mar-a-Lago house, after months of discussions with the National Archives and Records Administration over paperwork from his time on the White House.
“I’m the one that has been the most transparent,” Trump informed Fox News Digital. “We were having productive talks with NARA and DOJ.”
“And then, they came and raided us,” Trump stated, relating to the Aug. 8, 2022 early morning FBI raid of his non-public place of abode in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Trump stated he and his staff had been running beneath the Presidential Records Act, which governs the respectable data of presidents and vice presidents that had been created or won. The regulation, which used to be amended in 2014, modified the prison possession of the respectable file of the president from non-public to public, and established a brand new construction beneath which presidents, and due to this fact NARA, should organize the data in their administrations.
Trump had grew to become over 15 packing containers to NARA in January 2022 of presidential data. The affidavit supporting the FBI’s warrant for the hunt mentioned that the FBI started reviewing the ones packing containers of data in May 2022 and recognized categorized data in 14 of the 15 packing containers.
Former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago lodge in Palm Beach, Florida.
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The FBI and the Justice Department mentioned the data in June 2022, and Trump stated officers visited the premises.
“When they were down here at Mar-a-Lago, they asked us to put an extra lock on the door and we did,” Trump stated, relating to DOJ officers visiting Mar-a-Lago in June 2022.
The affidavit additionally mentioned that when DOJ officers visited Mar-a-Lago, it used to be asked that the garage room housing the data be additional secured and that data be preserved.
“I said take whatever you want, take whatever you need,” Trump stated, relating to his conversations with officers after they visited Mar-a-Lago.
“My case shouldn’t even be a case,” Trump stated. “There was no obstruction—that was the opposite of obstruction.”
“But they raided the house. They did it. That’s just the way they are,” he persisted. “There are two sets of justice.”
He added: “The FBI has been so degraded by all of this.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence disclosed Tuesday that categorized paperwork had been present in his Indiana house.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a unique recommend to analyze the Mar-a-Lago data in November.
At the time, Pence defended Trump, pronouncing the appointment of a unique recommend to analyze his former boss used to be “very troubling” and “sent a divisive message across the country.”
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Pence knowledgeable the National Archives on Jan. 18 of a small selection of probably categorized paperwork present in two small packing containers. Another two packing containers contained copies of vice presidential papers. The National Archives then knowledgeable the FBI in line with usual process.
After the paperwork with categorized markings had been found out, they had been straight away put right into a secure, in line with the Pence staff.
The paperwork had been accumulated by way of the FBI at Pence’s house in Carmel, Indiana, on Thursday night time, Jan. 19. Pence used to be in Washington, D.C. for the once a year March for Life when the FBI accumulated the paperwork.
The Pence staff stated that the verdict to look the previous vice chairman’s house and place of job of his political advocacy staff, Advancing American Freedom, got here after the preliminary revelations that Biden held categorized data on the Penn Biden Center suppose tank.
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Classified data had been discovered throughout the Washington, D.C., places of work of the Penn Biden Center suppose tank on Nov. 2, 2022, however most effective disclosed to the general public previous this month.
Classified data had been discovered throughout the Washington, D.C., places of work of the Penn Biden Center suppose tank on Nov. 2, 2022.
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A 2nd stash of categorized paperwork used to be additionally discovered throughout the storage of the president’s house in Wilmington in December, however printed to the general public previous this month, prompting Garland to nominate former U.S. Attorney Rob Hur to function particular recommend.
Days later, further categorized paperwork had been discovered within the president’s house in Delaware. The FBI additionally carried out a greater than 12-hour seek of Biden’s Delaware house on Friday, seizing further categorized data.
Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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Fox News’ Kelly Laco contributed to this document.
