Ex-Watergate prosecutor fact-checks 'Trump’s delusions of grandeur': 'No, no and no'

Former General Counsel of the Army of the United States Jill Wine-Banks corrected Donald Trump after he falsely declared at a Tuesday, February 20 Greenville, South Carolina town hall that he did not have to return classified documents following his presidency — and that he eventually did return them.

Speaking with the former Watergate scandal prosecutor, MSNBC's The ReidOut host Joy Reid pointed out, "Part of what he's trying to do with his audience — and they love it, they accept it — is he committed no crimes because everything he did he was allowed to do — had total immunity to do," Reid said, before showing a clip from the town hall. "Here he is talking about one of the most obvious crimes, taking the classified documents," the MSNBC host added.

In the video, Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked the ex-president, "Why weren't they handed over when they requested them? You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble."

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Trump replied, "First of all, I didn't have to hand them over. Second of all, I would have done that. We were talking and then all of a sudden they raided Mar-a-Lago. They said, 'Could you put an extra lock on the door?' We showed them where they were. We showed them."

Wine-Banks then fact-checked the MAGA hopeful, saying, "No, no and no. He said three things there, all of which are false. They put a new lock in, they hid things, they moved things. Then they tried to destroy the videotape of them moving things. He did not have a right to move them. He had no right to retain them. He makes a comparison to [former President] Bill Clinton, who kept diaries. So did [former President] Richard Nixon. Those are things that are personal, and a president can keep. But all other presidential documents are not to be kept by the former occupant. They aren't intended for that. It's such clear law. The Presidential Records Act was a result of Richard Nixon. And it makes it very clear that they are government documents and must be left in the care of the National Archives, not taken as personal possessions."

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