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BREAKING: Trump describes process of how he declassified documents found at Mar-a-Lago
justthenews.com ^ | 8/12/2022 | john solomon

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: arrestgarland; creepstate; declassified; deepstate; documents; maralago; policestate; singlepartystate
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To: AnthonySoprano

LOL!


121 posted on 08/12/2022 9:40:16 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Petrosius

And that is about the dumbest, most ridiculous method for declassifying documents I’ve ever heard of.


122 posted on 08/12/2022 9:41:42 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: entropy12

Need to know


123 posted on 08/12/2022 9:42:16 PM PDT by Dead Dog
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To: TigersEye
LOL!!!

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.

124 posted on 08/12/2022 9:44:05 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: tsomer

The cult dies hard


125 posted on 08/12/2022 9:44:26 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: jonrick46

you dont expect the attorney general of the usa to actually know the laws he is enforcing and asking a warrant for?/s


126 posted on 08/12/2022 9:44:33 PM PDT by rolling_stone (N'T DI)
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To: bigdaddy45

Tom Jeff and Alex the Ham did the best they could.


127 posted on 08/12/2022 9:44:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: DJ MacWoW

Yep that’s a red flag alright. Not many of any vintage use that.


128 posted on 08/12/2022 9:47:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: TigersEye

I’m reading my Bible and going to bed. Night. :-)


129 posted on 08/12/2022 9:50:40 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: tsomer
Trump may have been trying to sell nuclear codes ...

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?

130 posted on 08/12/2022 9:51:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: DJ MacWoW

Sound wisdom! :)


131 posted on 08/12/2022 9:52:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: TigersEye; tsomer

I think tsomer headed for the tall grass.


132 posted on 08/12/2022 9:53:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: All
606-C4-EC6-1-BF4-4-B9-D-A247-971144-F106-CF

Hillary’s Staff - Not Huma


133 posted on 08/12/2022 9:55:24 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: bitt

rutroh.......


134 posted on 08/12/2022 9:59:16 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: dragnet2

About all he could do after making that loony mess.


135 posted on 08/12/2022 10:00:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: CrazyCatChick

“...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.


136 posted on 08/12/2022 10:01:09 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: dragnet2

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.


137 posted on 08/12/2022 10:04:40 PM PDT by tsomer
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To: rolling_stone

The Administrative State counts on the ignorance of the American electorate.


138 posted on 08/12/2022 10:05:32 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: CrazyCatChick

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 ).


139 posted on 08/12/2022 10:06:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: usconservative

I pray you are right.


140 posted on 08/12/2022 10:08:40 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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