I saw “unauthorized possession of” and concluded - there goes their case. He was the president.
I also heard the ‘audio clip’ that’s being hyped. I heard people laughing when he said, this is classified. Secret. I can imagine him waxing hyperbolic on the ridiculousness of most classification, and holding up a menu and saying, ‘This is classified. Secret.” Especially as they now say they don’t have the ‘document’ he was supposedly displaying at the time.
>I also heard the ‘audio clip’ that’s being hyped. I heard people laughing when he said, this is classified. Secret. I can imagine him waxing hyperbolic on the ridiculousness of most classification, and holding up a menu and saying, ‘This is classified. Secret.” Especially as they now say they don’t have the ‘document’ he was supposedly displaying at the time.<
He was not indicted for possessing classified documents. This audio file would most certainly never be allowed into evidence on it’s own and the snake Smith knows it. This is merely to taint the jury pool.
I would expect in voir dire for the jurors to be asked if they heard any leaked audio of the case.
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That's the part that kills me--the irony of him holding up a copy of The New York Times with a front page story of leaked info effectively saying "this is what Jack Smith wants to prosecute me for. Its on the freaking front page of the NYT!"
“I saw “unauthorized possession of” and concluded - there goes their case. He was the president.”
He wasn’t president at the time they found the documents he is charged with possessing. A former president is not authorized to possess national defense information. It seems to be a common misconception that a president owns his presidential records when he leaves office. While a former president has access to his presidential records after he leaves office, they are owned by and in the custody of the government. All of the presidential records contained in presidential libraries are owned by and managed by the National Archives.