To prove his point that he should be acquitted, Trump mentioned an obscure case that he wanted his fans to know about. It involved the sock drawer of former president Bill Clinton.
For those who don’t know what Trump is talking about, Clinton asked Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch, a biographer of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and a roommate of Clinton’s during George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, to come to the White House 79 times for interviews during his presidency. The interviews, many of which took place late at night, would act as a personal diary for Clinton’s eight years in office as they were happening.
More than a decade after a conservative activist group’s legal efforts to designate the Clinton tapes as presidential records under the Presidential Records Act were defeated in court, Trump and his allies are using the sock drawer as a rallying cry for his acquittal.
Trump faces 37 felony counts for allegedly stashing secret papers throughout his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla., after leaving the White House and allegedly hiding them from the government.Even before he pleaded not guilty on Tuesday, Trump and his legal team have argued that thegives the president the right to take any record upon leaving office and declare it personal. In reality, the 1981 law requiring White House documents to be preserved as property of the U.S.
So 79 times between Jan. 20, 1993, and Jan. 20, 2001, Branch traveled from Baltimore to D.C. to visit the White House late at night for interviews that the president kept secret from his own staff, the historian said. Branch recorded the talks on two recording devices and sometimes stayed overnight in D.C. when the talks with Clinton stretched on for hours, he recalled.
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