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 documents contained nuclear information which relates to national security & is highly sensitive. If any regular citizen had done this, they would have been arrested & jailed the next day. They don’t fuck around with national security info. They were extremely patient with him.
i think you are on the wrong forum..roflmao.
And you actually believe all the Bilge they are putting out on this from the DOJ and FBI?
it sounds like SOMEONE rclassified them after DJT left - now let’s see those names!!
“...can the next president reclassify the documents?”
Yes, but there is zero evidence Biden reclassified anything in Trump’s possession. Regardless of the idiot rumor mill.
“Idiot” because the rumors are idiocy, and because people spreading the rumors are idiots.
Woop! There it i’is, there it i’is!
“I think that Biden took President Trump’s security access.”
NO. Please don’t feed the Qooks.
At this point, it is becoming difficult to discount the possibility of anything that relates to stopping a 2024 Trump run at a second term. If the public is unable to see very soon the malevolence of American socialism, a time of great trouble lies ahead.
This is all just BS to get people spun up amd fixated on this “issue”.
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yes, and also divert from Grassley’s deadline of giving information on the Hunter Biden cover-up.
Wrong. And here’s the SCOTUS decision that says so ...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4085211/posts
I think it was a spectacular DJT trap on the F b I
We will see
Who reclassified the docs after they were declassified and never published it???????”
https://twitter.com/Checkmate2024/status/1557837508741832704
Innocent or not, with no constitutional protection Trump is liable to be driven from office on whatever charges they make up.
Hey brainiac, how funny is that? Trump cooked? How insane, right? Since you seemed to have missed it, Trump WAS cooked. Do you have a better word for having the laughably illegal and obvious coup perpetrated upon him? Trump as president, with unlimited national exposure was ridden out of DC on a rail by the same DC oligarchs. This occurred after Trump, by a long shot, received more votes than any candidate had before. Now the groups that ran him out of DC and have kept him in court for six years, control the presidency and every facet of DC power including Roberts and a cadre of hack “judges” like Sullivan and this is a big joke for you. Fcol (for crying out loud) don’t you ever think?
why did you say wray when it was garland?
and the judge was not a Trump appointee
i am getting a whiff of something here
are you getting paid by the word?
Why the hell did Trump have these docs, yeah he’s in the right here but he was just asking for this. He handed them an excuse and Look at the crap storm we have now.
If it happened at all, that is.
You are senile
False, presidents still have to follow a process, especially for nuclear weapons which the president does NOT have the authority to unilaterally declassify. Nuclear information was contained in the documents the FBI seized at Maralago.
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