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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This is disinformation. The president can’t just declassify nuclear secrets. Google it
give it up
Wray heads the FBI. The FBI carried out the search
That report is as real as the Steele Dossier and the Ukraine scam.
“Nuclear information was contained in the documents the FBI seized at Maralago.’
We will see in the future. Nothing is proven yet.
Trump was cooked #8,475
So cooked he's going to run for president again and win. You bet Fred. ☺
It’s just funny that everyone is so cool about this. Espionage
It’s just funny that everyone is so cool about this. Espionage
The process is anything the president wants. The process is controlled by the president.
NO! Reinhart is a district MAGISTRATE judge, appointed by district judges. Presidents appoint FEDERAL judges.
You post is riddled with falsities.
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Comey took items to his home, and he didn’t have classification markings on them. He didn’t want anyone to know he was taking them.
There was a process for taking some, others no - but he didn’t follow the process, and it was A-okay.
And The President is in another league and has total authority.
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You are very wrong, and the USSC has already ruled about 30 years ago and its very clear. The president can be handed a classified document, say its now declassified and give it to a russian spy. It might be impeachable, but not illegal. And Obama’s 2009 executive order spelled out processes for classifying and declassifying documents, and it specifically says the president is excempt from all processes, formal or informal.
Trump tweeted many times going back to 2018 that he had declassified all the Rusia/Crossfire/Clinton stuff. And it was also memorialized in a January 2021 letter from Mark Meadows to the DOJ/DNI that this stuff was declassified. The document is floating around on the internet. easy to find.
Between 8/12/2022, 7:07:21 PM and 8/12/2022, 11:15:24 PM, you’ve done a 180 on your “opinion”, SO, are you tsomer or someone else?
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This is a repeat of earlier moves against Trump.
Surveillance was a part of it, I’m sure.
It’s like when Vindman was overruling Trump’s Foreign policy and listening to his calls.
There is a Librarian here saying Trump has to follow my rules.
The Truth is it was about surveillance and confiscating other things to get Trump. It was an In.
Nope again. So far, no documentation of anything nuclear.. just a rumor leaked out last night.. and again, the president has absolute and final authority on declassifying anything including nuclear materials... he might be impeached, but nothing illegal.. and USSC ruled on it in 1988.
How do you know its fake? To get that warrant they had to show a high degree of probable cause, especially with that judge. No way would the warrant have been signed otherwise because DOJ is highly worried about appearing political, believe it or not. They knew people would be upset about this and cry witch-hunt lmao. This is isn’t just some congressional fishing expedition either. Needed sign offs by both Garland and Wray, the grand jury, and the magistrate
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He was appointed by a board of Judges.
Trump did NOT nominate him.
“Trump may have been trying to sell nuclear codes or info. to foreign adversaries in exchange for money or in order to bribe someone.”
You are a loony toon.
The classification markings are modified
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Yes. The standard process is to strike out all title or paragraph classification markings, apply the declassified stamp and sign. In general the signature would be from the authority who performed the declassification.
roflmao you are 51-50
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