Trump's Verbal Defense: The Battle Over Presidential Records and Clinton's Sock Drawer.

Former President Donald Trump is citing the "Clinton socks case" as a legal precedent to clear his name after being indicted on 37 counts, including "willful retention of national defense information." The reference is derived from a 13-year-old case in which the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch sought access to 79 audio tape recordings of Clinton interviews conducted by the historian Taylor Branch while Clinton was president. However, key distinctions between the 2012 opinion and Trump's recent charges will matter as to whether the former president can successfully rely on such an opinion in his case.