Hillary’s Staff - Not Huma
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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LOL!
And that is about the dumbest, most ridiculous method for declassifying documents I’ve ever heard of.
Need to know
I always sign out of FR. My adult kids are all conservatives but I still sign out.
The other thing that I noticed was his use of the "eff" word. I have NEVER seen a 98 signup use it in the forum. They knew better.
The cult dies hard
you dont expect the attorney general of the usa to actually know the laws he is enforcing and asking a warrant for?/s
Tom Jeff and Alex the Ham did the best they could.
Yep that’s a red flag alright. Not many of any vintage use that.
I’m reading my Bible and going to bed. Night. :-)
Since you're ignoring me on the other thread I'll ask you again on this one.
Do you have any idea how stupid that is? How ridiculous? How impossible?
Sound wisdom! :)
I think tsomer headed for the tall grass.
rutroh.......
About all he could do after making that loony mess.
“...then what’s to stop Biden from giving everything to China and Iran and saying, if caught, “Oh, I declassified that.”
Nothing. If he’s the sitting President, he is the ultimate Classification Authority.
Sorry about that, and all previous nonsense.
I think someone got on my computer—somebody in my family God help me—and wrote those crazy things.
I don’t know how I’ll get this sorted out, but I will.
The Administrative State counts on the ignorance of the American electorate.
Just because a POTUS can legally declass anything doesn’t mean there isn’t a potential political price to pay for it ( if it is egregious ).
I pray you are right.
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