GOP Rep: Trump Needed Those Docs For His Memoirs

“Certainly we all know that every former president has access to their documents. That’s how they write their memoirs. They don’t have, you know, great recall of everything that occurred in their administration. And we don’t know that they were classified. We know according to the FBI documents that they were identified as marked classified.” – Rep. Mike Turner, on Face The Nation.

First elected in 2002, in both 2008 and 2010 Turner was listed as among the “most corrupt members of Congress” by the watchdog group CREW for massive payments to s lobbying outfit owned by his then-first wife. In 2016 he was accused of authoring energy legislation that would benefit the employer of his second wife, whom he divorced the following year.

Considered by some to be a relative moderate, Turner did not vote against certifying the 2020 presidential election and was among the 47 House Republicans who voted in favor of codifying same-sex marriage.

CBS: What use could a former POTUS have for classified information once he’s left office? Why bring it home to Florida?

REP. MIKE TURNER: You’d have to ask him, but certainly we all know that every former POTUS has access to their documents. It’s how they write their memoirs. pic.twitter.com/ZwOiKcCnqj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 21, 2022