Republican lawmakers have been so eager to defend former US president Donald Trump and his conduct that they dismissed one of the most damning pieces of documentary evidence included in the 37-count indictment against him: a photo of documents stacked up in boxes next to a toilet in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy claimed a bathroom was far safer than a garage, where some classified documents were found at President Biden’s home in Delaware. “Is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time? A bathroom door locks,” he said. Representative Byron Donalds suggested that the bathrooms were plenty secure. “There are 33 bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago. So don’t act like it’s just in some random bathroom that the guests can go into.”
Speaker Kevin McCarthy claimed a bathroom was far safer than a garage, where some classified documents were found at President Biden’s home in Delaware. “Is it a good picture to have boxes in a garage that opens up all the time? A bathroom door locks,” he said. Representative Byron Donalds suggested that the bathrooms were plenty secure. “There are 33 bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago. So don’t act like it’s just in some random bathroom that the guests can go into.”