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Kash Patel: All The Documents At Mar-a-Lago Were Already Declassified Unilaterally By President Trump (video)
realclearpolitics ^ | August 12, 2022 | By Tim Hains

Posted on 08/12/2022 2:03:08 PM PDT by dennisw

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To: Prince of Space

The only mouth that matters is the mouth of the federal prosecutor in front of the grand juries.


101 posted on 08/12/2022 4:25:00 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
The guy surrounds himself with incompetent idiots, fails to get basic paperwork completed, and the spouts Reddit level memes about Obama.

100% true.

But when you've got Rich Lowry, Erick Erickson, and John Podhoretz claiming that Trump didn't do anything wrong, that this was a fishing expedition, vociferously defending him, and lamenting that the idiots in Biden's Justice Dept. are going to get him re-elected, it's not hard at all to think that the the MAL raid was entirely out of bounds and Trump is procedurally innocent of any wrongdoing.

This has escalated far beyond Trump "cult of personality" worship. Even people sitting on the fence, even people who really, really, don't like Trump, can't help but recognize what a Charlie Foxtrot this raid was.

102 posted on 08/12/2022 4:53:30 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: dennisw
All any President needs to do is say, these documents are declassified. End of story... period. The President doesn’t need to write it down, he doesn’t even need to tell anyone. If the President says it’s declassified... move on, no story here. There are no clear procedures for the President to Declassify anything.

That sounds really strange. So, Biden can lose the seat in two years time and go home with documents that, say, highlight some of the thinking behind American SSBN patrol waypoints in the Arctic Ocean. An important part of the nuclear deterrent. And then, two years from now, if he’s caught with the documents at a bar, he can just simply say ‘I declassified them in 2022 - I didn’t tell anyone, but trust me, I declassified them.’ And that would be OK? Sorry, I don’t buy it. This has nothing to do with the FBI raising President Trump (different issue, likely a witch-hunt), but has to do with the comment Shab made. If that is true then the whole thing is a mess because that means any President can, basically, make things up and claim they declassified X,Y,Z when they were flossing their molars on September morning in either 2021 or 2022!

103 posted on 08/12/2022 4:55:37 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: spetznaz

There has to be documentation or there’s no proof he did it!
Saying and it happens means you’re claiming the president is a magician. There is a process for that.


104 posted on 08/12/2022 5:00:32 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

Thats absolutely likely true.

Impeach Biden. I would gladly spend tax money to make the whole GD works loose their ever filthy minds. Impeach him, his whole cabinet, his dogs, his staff..everyone and everything.

Censor the asshole, and investigate even his ice cream salesman.


105 posted on 08/12/2022 5:08:53 PM PDT by crz
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To: Vermont Lt

Pinhead statement,
or were you being facetious?


106 posted on 08/12/2022 5:53:05 PM PDT by A strike (LGBFJRoberts)
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To: Steely Tom

But following that logic…. If he were never the legitimate president, then there is no reason for the National Archives to have an interest in the documents. More importantly, he could not be indicted for stealing classified information because he would never have had access to them in the first place. Hence, any guilt would fall to someone else, and Trump is cleared of all charges once again.

Still winning!


107 posted on 08/12/2022 6:00:32 PM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: existentially_kuffer

“I’m surprised people here are not listening Kash Patel.”

You and me both. He was primary investigator working for Nunes, when they exposed the whole coup attempt. He and Nunes need statues built in their honor.

Kash is 100% correct, always. A lone voice of sanity, reason, and experience on our side.


108 posted on 08/12/2022 6:18:00 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: pepsi_junkie

I think Patel and Baier are both somewhat correct, and are caught on the difference in “declassification” and “releasing to the public”. Trump reportedly “declassified” many documents relating to the plots against him, but agreed that they had to go through a careful review process before release to the public. The review is supposed to protect private individuals, genuine intel sources, etc., by redacting identities. Since the same DoJ that plotted against Trump handles the review process, they have simply not done it.

Since Trump held documents for 1.5 years without releasing them, it’s a tough sell to claim he was creating any sort of risk or reneging on his promises due to DoJ intransigence. But since they know what he has, I assume they fear he was going to rain grenades on them during the 2024 campaign.


109 posted on 08/12/2022 6:25:08 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: DiogenesLamp

Those lines are already drawn.
More theater isn’t going to change.


110 posted on 08/13/2022 10:19:03 AM PDT by Reily
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To: DiogenesLamp

Those lines are already drawn.
More theater isn’t going to change.


111 posted on 08/13/2022 10:23:27 AM PDT by Reily
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