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Fox News’ Bret Baier Shuts Down Trump: ‘Obama Documents Were Handled Properly’<!-- wp:html --><p>Fox News/Screenshot</p> <p>As it becomes increasingly clear that Donald Trump may have <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-details-emerge-on-fbi-search-warrant-for-raid-on-donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-home?ref=home?ref=home">violated the Espionage Act</a> by storing “top secret” government documents at his private residence, the former president has turned to a familiar excuse: Obama did it too.</p> <p>“President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!” Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1558110003889901569">posted</a> on his social media platform Friday.</p> <p>But shortly after that, Fox News’ chief political anchor Bret Baier took pains to inform viewers that Trump’s whataboutism is meritless.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-bret-baier-shuts-down-trump-excuse-says-obama-documents-were-handled-properly?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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As it becomes increasingly clear that Donald Trump may have violated the Espionage Act by storing “top secret” government documents at his private residence, the former president has turned to a familiar excuse: Obama did it too.

“President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!” Trump posted on his social media platform Friday.

But shortly after that, Fox News’ chief political anchor Bret Baier took pains to inform viewers that Trump’s whataboutism is meritless.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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