Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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n but it's not interpreted that way. People will throw in their own assumptions there whether you like it or not. So I'd keep an eye on that. But I do think there's more skepticism than before. How many of you saw Trump's interview with Hannity last night? I guess the first major interview since the boxes at Mar-a-Lago were an issue. And if you saw it, how do you think he did? Because I haven't s…

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it's true. I'm not saying I automatically believe anything about this story or any person. All right? I'm not saying that. I'm just reporting what happened. That Trump's explanation is the most obvious explanation. What would be the most obvious explanation of all this? He didn't have anything to do with what went in the boxes and he didn't know what was in there. That's the most obvious explanation and that's the one he gave. The one I gave is the most obvious one. Yeah, that wasn't my business to know what's in a box. I mean I'm paraphrasing. He didn't say that. But the way he told it, it looked like he genuinely didn't know what kind of documents were even a problem. So I don't think even Trump knows what documents are controversial in that group. Doesn't that sound like the most reasonably true thing? Now I'm not saying it's true. I'm saying that if before you'd heard it you said what's the most likely thing? Well most likely somebody who operates at Trump's level never got near a box and some tape or whatever they close them up with.

Then the second thing he said, which he did not do a good job at, he did not do a good job at this because he didn't word it right but he could have. He indicated that those documents were unclassified by the actions he took. So he says directly there's no process. There's no required process that he has to follow as president when he was president to declassify anything. And since there's no formal process it cannot be said that you did the process wrong. You simply had to have done something that declassified them. And his argument is that moving them in a very obvious direct way from the secured location to his home was a clear signal to everybody that he declassified it. Now here's my question. Can you declassify a box whose contents you

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don't know? Does that even make sense? What would it mean if he said okay, obviously all of these boxes I'm shipping right in front of everybody, you all see it like we're not hiding it. Look at all these boxes. They're being loaded on the truck. No secrets here. So I would agree with him so far. So here's where I agree. I do agree that if there's no formal process that his actions are clear. If y…

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