Posted on 08/13/2022 4:54:11 AM PDT by bitt
Former president's office describe previously undeclared process that led to sensitive documents landing in Mar-O-Lago.
Donald 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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Well….At least you are open about being a spineless squish.
I read somewhere, (Sorry, no link.), that Biden supposedly “reclassified” some of the documents without telling anyone.
I’ve been reading that some of the stuff may have been classified under law, such that a president can’t declassify it.
A former president or agency director cannot unlearn classified materiel. And the president can direct documents declassified and frequently he has things in on the front pages of say the NYT classified going forward.
You must be another child living in Canada, making these sweepingly broad statements which are entirely ignorant.
For starters, presidents maintain their security clearances after they leave office.
There is a lot of nonsense like that flying around. It is not possible.
Imagine Biden classifies the Bible. Everyone with possession would be in violation.
It does not work that way.
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