‘Based on legal fiction’: Legal expert slams Trump claiming right to take documents

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Uploaded: 2023-06-15T02:29:31.000Z
Description: Donald Trump claiming he has the right to take documents upon leaving the White House is “based on a legal fiction,” Mary McCord, NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst, tells Joy Reid. "I think he's trying to sort of convince the population that he had no intent to break the law, he was just complying with the law,” McCord says on The ReidOut on MSNBC.

Donald Trump claiming he has the right to take documents upon leaving the White House is “based on a legal fiction,” Mary McCord, NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst, tells Joy Reid. "I think he's trying to sort of convince the population that he had no intent to break the law, he was just complying with the law,” McCord says on The ReidOut on MSNBC.