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Donald Trump “understood he was given power when he was elected, but did not understand he had obligations,” presidential historian Timothy Naphtali said Friday about Trump’s indictment of mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House.
“We live in a constitutional democracy. Everyone, including the president, is bound by the constitution and there are limits to their power,” Naftali, the former director of Richard Nixon’s presidential library, told CNN This Morning.
“Trump not only struggled with limits, he didn’t respect them,” Naftali added. “And this is a case where he was repeatedly told there were limits to his ability to preserve materials and he said, ‘I don’t care.'”
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Trump, charged with seven counts, will appear in court in Miami on Tuesday. In a screed on his Truth Social platform, Trump claimed on Thursday that he was an “INNOUNCENT MAN.”
The former president will also appear in court next year in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. Last month, a civil jury found him liable for sexual assault after advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused him of raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.
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