'CHERRY PICKED': Former officials knock Trump's document dump
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As all of you know, Donald Trump is about to deliver a primetime address. And normally, this would be a moment where we would anticipate big news from the person who occupies the Oval Office about a war or a pandemic or an economic crisis. When you're in a White House, these are selective moments a president typically takes to speak to the American public. We are not in normal times, as you all know. And this speech is not going to be about this country, and it is not going to be about the American people and the challenges people face. In all likelihood, it will be about Donald Trump's obsession with his own election loss in 2020, about his refusal to give up on debunked conspiracy theories about that election.
and about his efforts to make it harder to vote in the next election because he thinks his party can't win on the merits. We all have seen that. And there's also reason for him, including today, to feel that way. A new Washington Post poll out today finds Trump's approval rating is hovering around a dismal 37%. Whew. And a Marquette University poll taken last month finds that voters prefer Democratic control of Congress by eight points. We don't know exactly what the president will say in the speech, but we do know that at some point he's expected to release some kind of declassified intelligence documents about the 2020 election. We do know that. And we're all going to be waiting for that, and we're going to be reviewing that as well.
I would note that there has already been a declassified report released about exactly that. You can all read it. It's online. Just Google it. From 2021. We also know that Trump plans to surround himself with a handpicked group of people from his national security team, some of whom, and you can see them all on your screen right there, we talk about them on the regular, have zero experience in intelligence matters. Yet a number of them are advising him on what intelligence, raw intelligence, he may release. And we also know that ahead of the speech today, the White House hosted a group of about two dozen election deniers, people who have spent years bolstering his unsupported claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
We discussed and we debated whether we would take even a minute of this speech, because in the past, he has used nearly every public speaking opportunity to spread lies and conspiracies. but we can't just pretend it isn't happening. It's like we can't pretend any day what he's doing isn't happening. We know that this speech will be showing up in the feeds of millions of people across the country. Many of them may be your friends and your neighbors. And we decided that just over 100 days from an election, it's important to confront what we are dealing with live and in real time. We may pull out of the speech at any moment, and we are going to watch this with a group of experts who are prepared to combat the lies and dismantle the conspiracies right away.
We're also going to speak with Senator Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, and Senator Raphael Warnock. Because when Trump says something that is misleading or unethical or just plain false, we want to arm you with accurate information. Okay, well, we are, we're gonna turn over to the president now.
What did Trump's primetime address claim about election vulnerabilities and declassified documents?
People pouring in from all over the world, including criminals of all types and 11,888 murders, many of whom killed more than one person.
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