Unlike opinions regarding Hillary’s email server findings, we now have no trouble with willfully/intentionally mishandling of classified materials. Cool! It’s a free for all!
From the indictment:
“In July 2021, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey
(”’The Bedminster Club”), during an audio-recorded meeting with a writer,
a publisher, and two members of his staff, none of whom possessed a
security clearance, TRUMP showed and described a “plan of attack” that
TRUMP said was prepared for him by the Department of Defense and a
senior military official. TRUMP told the individuals that the plan was
“highly confidential” and “secret.” TRUMP also said, “as president I could
have declassified it,” and, “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”
b. In August or September 2021, at The Bedminster Club, TRUMP showed a
representative of his political action committee who did not possess a
security clearance a classified map related to a military operation and told
the representative that he should not be showing it to the representative and
that the representative should not get too close.”
Go back to DU and hang out with the other communist scum.
For starters, there's been no trial yet.
But that doesn't stop, you from already convicting Trump.
Classification is to suit the purposes of the President. He certainly can yield to himself the power to do what he sees fit. The difference is that Hillary Clinton wasn’t ever president. He shows the others that the document exists. He does not show them the contents, and cites the classified status. This is enough to demonstrate that he has decided their existence is declassified, but the contents are not. It doesn’t even matter whether this status corresponds to any status about how OTHER people should handle the documents. The fact that every other president has handled classified documents similarly (Remember Pres. Obama revealing classified information about the raid on bin Laden?) proves that these unenunciated classification statuses exist. In this one instance the law serves the President; the fact he thinks these actions are legal makes them legal. His treading some strange lines about NOT having declassified the documents completely demonstrates that he’s not making this up as he goes, after being president.
This does, however, go to the foolishness of Pres. Trump. His behavior here is at least confusing. That he didn’t use this power to exonerate himself demonstrates he did his job poorly.