Posted on 01/09/2021 10:46:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When and How can Trump release the documents to the people?
What are the options? He can do it. He's the President.
and possibly that’s the reason they are shutting him down...or at least one of the reasons.
Wishful thinking. If President Trump had access to a smoking gun he would have released it before the election.
Trump ought to pull a Hilary and just take the files. He might need them as insurance.
His family, I would suspect. He needs to get things stabilized. These strange accusations about inciting a riot came out of no where.
Start with declass of the 99 page Collyer report. Then pardon Assange.
Even if Trump were to order it, nothing would be released. Bank it.
Ratcliffe could get it done. Not everything, but lots. If he has the docs with him, if he was prescient enough to gather them in advance, he could present them to Trump. Trump can write, “declassified” on each page, and hnd them to Veritas, or similar. Still time.
Trump could release them to Wikileaks and pardon Assange if he posts them.
Personally, I think they’re just petty, spiteful, vindictive rats, wasting time on the people’s dime.
Once it’s declassified, couldn’t be release it at his leisure? In a book, perhaps?
I think Trump has issued mutiple orders solemnly instructing agency heads in the past to declassify documents and release them to the public.
Had the agency heads adhered to his orders at that time, much deep state misbehavior among career governnment employees would have been made known by now
Take a guess what happened.
IIRC the agency heads, rather than faithfully carry out the new mandate, instead retreated into a hazy cloud of regulatory murk. Most likely, they sought and obtained contrary opinions from Trump-hating agency lawyers (i.e., in-house government lawyers) who were perfectly willing to start with the legal conclusion the corrupt agency head wished to receive (namely: The agency should refrain from declassifying) and work backwards from there. In that way, the corrupt agency heads obtained cover for doing next to nothing in response to the executive orders in question.
Trump isn’t going to release anything because he doesn’t have anything. If he “had” something, of course he would’ve released it when it would have been beneficial to his re-election. It makes no sense to believe he’d keep it secret until after he/we had been screwed.
“they are acting like a pack of hyenas working to take down a fatally wounded lion”
This.
For most of them, their behavior is not rational at this point; they’re just trying to destroy as much of the opposition as they can at this point, leveraging a single ill-gotten win.
No doubt bezos would carry it on amazon and nyt would give it rave revie..................NOW who’s delusional? Me.
Right, they’ll slow walk the process until Biden takes office.
The post reaction to the rally and staged riot was too scripted. They are very worried about something. It is not being driven by the polls.
1) classified information
2) pardons which perhaps lead to more information becoming available
3) scared of Trump impacting future elections or public opinion
4) blind hate or revenge
5) It may not be the US political players underlying being worried about 1 through 4 but somebody or some country pulling the players strings very hard.
Enough of impending blockbusters and booms. Just release the info. Declassify it now. Put it on the White House web site to download.
The longer Trump waits, the easier it will be to circumvent any orders he may give. As of right now, government employees can say FU to any orders he gives, because any disciplinary action for insubordination can be stalled to After January 20, at which point it will be rescinded by Biden.
I hope he unleashes hell on his way out...after 4 years of abuse, I wouldn’t blame him one bit.
His personal letter to FUJoe should be a cheery FO.
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Trump has been very quiet lately.
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