A member of the Senate Republican leadership claimed former President Donald Trump should have handed over allegedly classified documents that were stored at his Mar-a-Lago residence after he left office last year.
“He should have turned the documents over, and apparently had turned a number of documents over,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) told ABC News on Sunday morning, without addressing assertions and an executive order from Trump indicating he declassified documents while president.
Blunt, the No. 3 Republican in the upper chamber of Congress, suggested the FBI raid was politically motivated, noting it was carried out three months before the 2022 midterms.
“What I want to know about is why this could go on for almost two years and less than 100 days before the election, suddenly we are talking about this rather than the economy, or inflation, or even the student loan program,” Blunt said….