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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The idea that some paper-pushing bureaucrat, with classification authority delegated BY THE PRESIDENT, needs to approve of declassification is absurd.
Nuff said.
President Trump wins, again!
True.
Trump and his lawyers should immediately file for the FBI to return all documents and items taken from his home. The warrant was looking for classified material ant there was none at the residence. The FBI should be enjoined from even viewing Trump’s private papers.
I don’t know how I’ll get this sorted out, but I will.
FReepmail an Admin, list all the offending posts, explain someone else got on your computer and request that they be deleted.
I think someone got on my computer—somebody in my family God help me—and wrote those crazy things.
Someone had control of your account for 45 minutes?
Better change your password.
I think that can happen, but notifications have to be sent out to those holding the formerly declassified documents that they are now classified and must be either returned or handled appropriately. It can’t legally be done in secret, the onus to notify the affected parties is on the classifying authority.
Legal defense? For what? Wray needs a legal degense.
Legal defense? For what? Wray needs a legal degense.
Legal defense? For what? Wray needs a legal degense.
Trump is cooked #8,476
Considering your signature, you are too.
I don’t think crossfire-hurricane contains nuclear secrets.
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