CNN
A day after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) defended former President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents by invoking bathroom door locks, MAGA-boosting Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) took that excuse several hilarious steps further on Thursday morning.
Just hours before Trump is scheduled to be arraigned at a federal courthouse in downtown Miami, Donalds appeared on CNN This Morning to peddle the GOP’s latest talking points in defense of the twice-impeached ex-president.
Donalds, whose name has been bandied about as Trump’s potential 2024 running mate, began the interview by attacking Special Counsel Jack Smith for charging Trump under the Espionage Act. Smith’s 37-count indictment of Trump accuses the former president of breaking seven federal laws, including willful retention of national defense information, engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a government record, concealing an official document, hiding a record from a federal investigation, making false statements and a scheme to conceal.