Fox News analyst Brit Hume bashed former President Donald Trump’s defense in his classified documents case as “incoherent.”
Host Brett Baier pressed the former president on the allegations in a Monday interview. Following the interview, Hume gave his thoughts on Trump’s response, expressing doubt as to whether his case could hold up in court.
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“His answers on the matter of the law seem to verge on incoherent,” Hume said.
“He seemed to be saying the documents were really his, and he didn’t give them back when he was requested to do so, and when they were subpoenaed because he wasn’t ready to because he hadn’t sorted them or whatever from his golf shirts,” he added. “It was not altogether clear what he was saying, but he seemed to believe that the documents were his, that he had declassified them and therefore he could do whatever he wanted with them.”
Hume’s skepticism came soon after Baier’s interview with the former president, during which the Fox News host pressed Trump repeatedly on why he was in possession of the classified documents in the first place.
“Like every other president, I take things out,” Trump said. “In my case, I took it out pretty much in a hurry, but people packed it up, and we left. And I had clothing in there. I had all sorts of personal items.”
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“I want to go through the boxes and get all my personal things out,” he added. “I don’t want to hand that over to [the National Archives] yet. And I was very busy. As you have sort of seen.”
Trump also denied being in possession of plans for a military strike on Iran.
