Posted on 08/12/2022 7:09:43 PM PDT by bitt
Former president's office says there was standing order that classified memos automatically declassified if moved to residence.
nald Trump's office told Just the News on Friday that the classified materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate were declassified under a "standing order" while he was president that allowed him to take sensitive materials to the White House residence at night to keep working.
The official statement is likely to become the focus of the president's legal defense as the FBI and Biden Justice Department investigate whether he stole records covered under the Presidential Records Act or mishandled classified materials under the Espionage Act, allegations included in a search warrant released by a federal court in Florida on Friday.
The president's defense is rooted in the legal principal that the president and vice president are the ultimate declassifying authority of the U.S. government and through executive orders most recently issued in 2003 by George W. Bush and Barack Obama in 2009 that specifically exempt the president and vice president from having to follow the stringent declassification procedures every other federal agency and official must follow.
Trump has maintained for weeks that any documents still containing classified markings in his possession after he left office were previously declassified. On Friday night, the statement issued to Just the News explained exactly how that declassification occurred in his mind.
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I think he / she / it is smoking grass!
Yes, he appeared to have some conflicting issues.☺
Tim Scott comes around to this is “Overreach”
I’ve lost any hope I ever had for this guy.
Can the next President reclassify? Good question but irrelevant here because Buyden is NOT a legitimately elected President.
You are assuming what the crooked DOJ/FBI is saying (through leaks by unnamed people) is true.
Reminds me of Conway.
Conway Twitty “Its Only Make Believe”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJefPaBsSug
Huh?
This is all part of the Biden/media spin. Trump could have had beach balls in those boxes.
Yeah, get your family under control. Make sure to log off FR.
I do like his or her posts, though, they are indicative of the thrust of the far left. I think it is important to be able to refute the BS spewed, I may spend time preparing rebuttals.
The President can declassify any document at any time in any manner he wishes.
Then Biden can also declassify any document at any time in any manner he wishes. That's not something America should be celebrating. That's something America should be very, very concerned about.
These socialist tropes think they have him when in fact Just The News is describing that President Trump had no Mens Rea formed , no intent to commit a crime under the Espionage Act,
Trump Trolls the opposition sending them NUTZO yet again!
Ask not for whom President Trump Trolls.
I’ve heard he’s still there working on a Trump case.
Creep.
I do not think so, at least they should not be able to. That means all those Presidential libraries can be raided, too, AND Obama’s stash of documents.
ADAM SCHIFF
It was NOT espionage. Get your ears and eyes away from the propaganda media.
IF such documents were there, they were planted.
After ALL the crap the Clinton’s and Obama pulled I am surprised THE FBI knows what espionage IS. I suspect much of Congress is into the espionage game, as is The Big Guy. This may be about Trump’s knowledge as to just how much Democrats were selling secrets to our non-friends. They are, as usual, projecting.
Your ridiculous view on being jobbed out of a second term already is, we’ll get ‘em next time. I see you’re still pushing that 5D chess fantasy.
Agree.
Navarro was on the War room Friday Aug 12.
Navarro told the story of one way to troll Deep State actors
“Please explain to me again why this innocent document is classified”
Ground them. We thank you.
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