CNN’s Jim Acosta and Paula Reid Call BS On Trump Trying To Get Classified Docs Case Dismissed

CNN anchor Jim Acosta and Chief Legal Analyst Paula Reid called BS on former President Donald Trump and his legal team for their assertions about the handling of classified documents in their attempt to get the case dismissed.

Thursday morning, Trump showed up for a hearing in the Espionage Act case being tried before Judge Aileen Cannon on Trump’s many motions to dismiss the case, this one on the basis of the Presidential Records Act. And in an interview Wednesday night, Trump argued the PRA “totally protects me!”

On Thursday’s edition of CNN Newsroom , Acosta and Reid torpedoed that claim, as well as Trump’s further assertion that “we weren’t hiding anything”:

JIM ACOSTA: Yeah, I mean, Paula, I mean, he’s he’s sort of I mean, his legal team is saying we can keep any document that, that we want. But at the same time Trump is trying to make the case, it sounds like, “Oh, well, it was a messy process. We were in a rush. We were packing boxes.”.

It’s sort of two different things.

PAULA REID: Yeah. Let’s use his own words. The story that we broke, right. He’s on tape saying, you know, I couldn’t declassify things after I left office. And insinuating that he has something that is classified and he knows he shouldn’t have it. Right?

I mean, the argument that you can just take classified documents with you, that you’re, they’re personal property. That is not something that is going to succeed in a court of law. Even if Aileen Cannon, who has surprised us before, agrees with this, a court of appeals is going to reject that argument. That that is false on its face.

Even his description of what happened is contradicted in the indictment itself. I mean, even him saying we’re not hiding anything.

Well, if you weren’t hiding anything, why didn’t you give all these documents back when you were first asked? Why were boxes moving around? I mean, one of the charges here is obstruction.

So what he said there on Newsmax just does not match the facts of the case.

JIM ACOSTA: Yeah. And I’m also thinking about, you know, looking back to the Robert, her hearing that we heard up on Capitol Hill the other day, the Republicans going after Joe Biden for documents he kept. I mean, I guess under the Trump legal team’s thinking here, I guess President Biden shouldn’t have been in any hot water over the documents that were next to the Corvette in his garage.

Watch above via CNN’s CNN Newsroom .