Traitor Joe wasn’t even charged despite the fact he was vice President and had no authority to retain top secret documents ….in his garage
” and that the act does not apply to classified and top-secret documents like those kept at his estate,”
He had ZERO classified documents. Some declassified documents had “classified” stamps on them that do not vanish with declassification.
He is NOT charged with possessing any classified document. The charges are all Espionage Act “national defense information” charges. That wide ranging charge can be anything and does not require something be classified.
This keeps getting passed as a “fact” that he had classified documents... but he did NOT.
Trump initially said everything he had was declassified and maintains that position. Then after the F-Troop raid on Mar-a-Lago, DOJ tried to force him to enumerate all documents he possessed. He refused.
It was an obvious trap that he lists all he had. DOJ would slip in a classified document not on his list, then they would prosecute him.
It is a lie and he only had declassified documents.
Also all the documents he had were packed by National Archives and left unceremoniously in the White House driveway in boxes.
This is a set up. Cannon needs to set hearing after hearing and kneel on the ball to run out the clock. If she dismisses it out of hand, they will appeal it quickly and reinstate the charges. Kneel on the ball, delay and set hearing after hearing, take weeks to consider.
They literally demanded Trump certify a list of what FBI took in the raid and affirm that was the complete list. It’s truly amateur. Jack Smith is a clown used to predetermined political venues like the Hague.
And he remains one of the few people overturned unanimously by the Supreme Court.
And there are no criminal or civil penalties in the Act
Our criminal justice system fails to dismiss illegal criminal prosecutions promptly. It’s an embarrassment. Cannon has generally benefited Trump in her rulings. If the pattern continues she will give Trump a favorable ruling dismissing the charges after sufficient delay to ensure the appeal isn’t decided before the election.
Incorrect in my opinion, and I read the exact law several times, and heard actual lawyers debate both sides.
The PRA allows a President to keep “personal records” which are almost always something the President created himself. The Bill Clinton “sock” recordings fall into that type of document. However any documents that were originally created by the government, and simply used, or referenced by a President while in office, are called “Presidential Records” and still belong to the government.
In a nutshell, Trump is attempting to claim these classified documents that were originally created by the DoD etc were his “personal records” which is completely contrary to what the law says.
The PRA is also not a criminal law, and does not discuss the handling of classified information, as that scope is the purview of higher level federal criminal statues that would supersede the PRA in cases involving classified information.
You’re welcome make your own determinations about it, and the judge may rule in Trump’s favor anyway, but a simple reading of the PRA which is not a complex document makes it clear the information in question is Presidential in nature, not personal. Trump is just attempting to claim the PRA protects him by his attempted misclassification of the document type as personal records, when he didn’t create any of them to begin with.
Dismiss the federal government’s case it’s bogus from the get go just a another biased judge hunting case.
The stench the the democrat party still lingers.
bttt
It has become clear to me their are NO good judges.
The entire Judicial system is a total joke.
When the media reported that the Judge dismissed the one request, they neglected to add what the Judge said:
She said: “ at this time.”