Posted on 08/09/2022 8:21:08 AM PDT by bitt
The court-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is another unmistakable signal that the Justice Department is trying to build a criminal case against him arising out of the Capitol riot.
Ostensibly, the search relates to a long simmering dispute between the former president and the government over Trump’s potentially illegal retention and mishandling of classified information. But don’t be deceived.
National Archives officials alerted the Justice Department months ago regarding missing records and possible classified information violations. That owes to the chaotic atmosphere in which the Trump family decamped to Florida from the White House following the Capitol riot – with impeachment proceedings and even talk of removing Trump from office under the 25th Amendment then underway.
Reportedly, about 15 boxes of records were removed from the White House and shipped to Mar-a-Lago. The National Archives subsequently explained that much of the material should have been kept in the government’s possession, pursuant to the Presidential Records Act. After extensive negotiations, Trump agreed to return some of the materials in January 2022. Upon receipt, National Archives officials advised the Justice Department that the returned materials included classified information.
If true, that raises several issues. If Trump had not declassified these materials while he was president, then his continuing possession of them in a non-secure location was probably illegal. While presidents have unilateral authority to declassify intelligence, they only maintain that authority while in office – it may not be exercised in the post-presidency. The returned documents were thus potentially evidence of crimes. In addition, since it is believed Trump did not return everything that was shipped out of the White House in those hectic days of January 2021, there was significant reason to suspect he continued to retain classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
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Why? Did something happen on January 6th?
Go phook yourself Andrew.
To not call this BS demonstrates, once again, your Deep State Bina Fides.
never trump douchebag says what?!?
STFU McCarthy.
No, neither of those.
It’s a warning to back off Hunter Biden
January 6th? That minor trespass event? Good Lord.
Trump should have put the documents in his socks and down his pants. Then the National Archives would do nothing.
The problem is is he Declassified them and the justice department just never released them to the public and actually remarked the documents officially so are they classified or Declassified? They are marked classified but they were Declassified by an act of the president when he was president it’s the bureaucracy of the deep state that did not make these declassifications officially to remark the documents
If President Trump was getting quality advice, he would have been advised that this raid was a possibility and to take specific actions. Actions that I would hope included:
1. Only his attorneys have the safe combination and they filmed the inside of the safe before sealing it (empty).
2. ALL government documents were inventoried by two attorneys and his personal admin, sealed in containers with tamper proof tape, locked up and in a place requiring card key access (records and videos accesses) that only his admin and attorneys.
3. Activated hidden security cameras to video his office, safe, and document storage area.
Probably a few other things too. Wait for this situation, wait for the evidence to be fabricated, wait for the indictment, wait for the pre-trial hearings, and then nail the government thugs in open court.
Is he kidding me with this article?
Going on about how Trump could have declassified the records, but if he forgot to it became a crime once he left office?
A crime NO ONE has ever been prosecuted for! And a courtesy that is given to all former presidents.
If they are not alive, they can’t come to open court
The markings mean nothing if Trump declassified the documents, and declassification is an administrative procedure. It’s not like there is some constitutional process that is binding upon the President. If Trump decided they were declassified, even if he did it 10 seconds before he left office, then they were declassified, end of story.
This is ALL to prevent him from running because thy know full well he has the public's support and would win in 2024....and they know he's already successful supporting other candidates that's hurting the Mid term election a few months ahead. So they want him off the streets and out of the running - both.
Yeah. Just like the late hack Sandy Berger did.
It’s about an outsider exposing their deep dark dirty secrets.
Its about the guest book to pedo isle
[[The problem is is]]
It depends on what your definition if “is” is.
Sorry, couldn’t resist 😀
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