Trump Claims Bill Clinton Stored Classified Material ‘In His Socks’ and Hillary Destroyed Emails With Actual Acid

Former President Donald Trump went on a bizarre tangent during a Newsmax interview Wednesday in which he claimed former President Bill Clinton stored classified material “in his socks” and Hillary Clinton used acid to destroy her emails.

Appearing on Greg Kelly Reports, the former president was asked about his classified documents case, for which he was indicted on four criminal charges by Special Counsel Jack Smith. His legal team moved to have the case dismissed, and Trump appeared in court on Thursday for a hearing that will determine whether or not the case will move forward.

But Trump deflected and brought up documents cases involving former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:

They released Hillary Clinton. She hammered her phones. She used all sorts of acid testing and everything else they call it, BleachBit, but it’s essentially acid that will destroy everything within 10 miles. I mean, what she did was unbelievable. Nothing happens to her. Nothing happens to Bill Clinton. He took it out in his socks, you know? It was a famous socks case, which he actually ended up winning.

For starters, Hillary Clinton was never “released” from anything; she was never in custody during the investigation into her email server, and the State Department ultimately determined that there was “no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.” The FBI investigation yielded no charges.

And BleachBit is software. It is not any kind of acid that can destroy anything, and emails are also not something that can be destroyed with acid. But that’s besides the point, because while Clinton’s aides did use BleachBit to delete emails that had already been exported, Clinton turned over 30,000 work-related emails from her private email server to the FBI. She deleted emails that were deemed personal and unrelated to the investigation, and that what was what was seen by the FBI as “careless” but not an intentional effort to obstruct justice.

The hammer story is true, but not as nefarious as it sounds since the SIM cards from those phones were transferred, preserving the phone’s data.

As for Bill Clinton’s socks, this is also an oft-repeated claim made by Trump that has been debunked and clarified. The “documents” in question were audio tapes of an interview between Clinton and a historian, and Clinton reportedly kept them (for whatever reason) in his personal sock drawer. The tapes were also not deemed by a judge to be government property, but the personal property of the historian.

Not the same as top secret documents in a ballroom, bathroom, or even a garage.

Watch above, via Newsmax.

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