Posted on 08/19/2022 7:33:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
With the bungled raid on Mar-a-Lago by Voldemort Garland’s minions, we must turn off the valve on his gaslight and blow away the stench being spread by the lamestream media. To do this, we must unequivocally declare that words actually have meanings. As John Adams said at the Boston Massacre trial, “Facts matter, and facts are stubborn things.”
Bill Clinton’s famous prevarication of, “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is” notwithstanding, the Supreme Court has made it abundantly clear with Heller, McDonald, Dobbs, and Bruen that the meanings of words in law are those that the authors of the law would have understood, not some later permutation preferred by the Left. That’s why we should question the Lawfare blog’s insistence that “The FBI has clearly developed significant evidence of criminal activity at Mar-a-Lago related to the handling of classified material, and government property more generally.”
Lawfare’s take is not surprising given that it is a lefty organization. But inquiring minds want to know the Truth. And no, I’m not talking about Trump’s social media organization that still doesn’t have a web app. I’m talking about the word “truth” and what it actually means.
Image: Trump and Melania leave the White House. YouTube screen grab.
“Truth” is a verbal representation of what is or what has happened. Truth does not care whether you believe it or not. It will not argue with you. It will simply hit you between the eyes when you ignore or deny it enough times. For example, if you have no income and you keep spending money, eventually your credit card will be rejected. It’s not complicated; it’s just a fact. It’s not my truth or your truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
VERY INTERESTING........
The President, after all, is the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.
Trump could have declassified those documents any time he pleased. I hear on the news that the raid netted documents that were marked TOP SECRET. Matters not how they were marked, the classification authority of the president is plenary.
The final question is whether Trump had documents that the Presidential Records Act says belong to the National Archives. While that’s possible, 45 has been very cooperative on that count.
When the movers took things out of the White House, it’s quite likely that they scooped up some items that fit into that description. On an earlier DOJ visit to Mar-a-Lago, some of these things were identified and handed over without objection.
And as The Donald has noted, ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK! He’d be happy to return anything that fit the bill. And that brings us to a key consideration.
Attorney General Merrick “I’m only enforcing the rule of law” Garland apparently dithered over authorizing the raid for weeks. If national security was at issue, why wasn’t he knocking on Trump’s door within a few days after January 20?
It’s now over a year and a half later. For National Archives issues, a simple phone call would work. Trump’s personal work and passports don’t fall under any form of request or excuse. So, what’s going on?
I can’t read the alleged mind of anyone on the Left, so here comes my best guess. Sleepy Joe’s puppet masters realized that their attempt to use the January 6 circus to paint Trump as an insurrectionist was failing. So, they needed to find a way to soil him so badly that his base would reject him. “Under investigation” would be the magic words. But they forgot a key item.
Release the complete and un-redacted search warrants
Ping
The final question is whether Trump had documents that the Presidential Records Act says belong to the National Archives.
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The National Archives and Records Administration is an “independent federal agency of the United States government within the executive branch”,
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I submit the last question is whether the N.A. is under the Executive Branch.
Since it is...
The final authority is the head of the Executive Branch
The President
President Trump ( at the time)
NOT the head of the N.A.
The last question is who is above who ?
The head of the Executive Branch President Trump ( at time of records movement) ?
Or the agency rule UNDER the President.
The answer is obvious.
It is possible he stuffed secret documents down his pants like the Sand Burgler guy?
If they indict him, they won’t be able to get a conviction unless they buy off the jury. I’m not sure the case would even get to trial. Unfortunately, they aim to damage his reputation so severely that he will decide not to run again in 2024. He’ll be tied up in court matters. I believe more indictments will be coming from New York and whatever other fishing expeditions his enemies are working on.
I pray every day for his physical safety. The overriding goal of the New World Order goons is to keep him out of the White House, by whatever means necessary.
The raid had nothing to do with classified documents.
The raid was to steal, then destroy, any evidence Trump had on anyone and everyone connected with the Russia hoax.
The Russia hoax along with the 2020 steal were the real acts of treason and a coup.
The Russia hoax doesn't sound bad until you realize that the intent of the conspiracy was to illegally take down a sitting President from within using fabricated fraud.A conspiracy fabricated within the government bureaucracies of the US government.
That didn't work, hence the 2020 election fraud AKA coup.
The raid had nothing to do with classified documents.
The raid was to steal, then destroy, any evidence Trump had on anyone and everyone connected with the Russia hoax.
The Russia hoax along with the 2020 steal were the real acts of treason and a coup.
The Russia hoax doesn't sound bad until you realize that the intent of the conspiracy was to illegally take down a sitting President from within using fabricated fraud.A conspiracy fabricated within the government bureaucracies of the US government.
That didn't work, hence the 2020 election fraud AKA coup.
Are there any attorneys on this forum who can declare definitively that when a president “deems” a document to be declassified, it is declassified?
The Left is making a big deal out of the necessity to follow a specific procedure in order to declassify a document, but if a president has complete authority to declassify a document, how would he be bound by rules, if those rules were formulated by Congress, who have no authority over the president in this matter?
From the article I found this:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/484/518/
The President, after all, is the “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.
I really must question this theory that Trump can wholesale declare large numbers of classified documents as UNCLASSIFIED and that is the end of it.
Classified documents are NUMBERED. This allows security to keep track of the individual owners of any given document. So when Trump declares a document UNCLASSIFIED he is not just declassifying his copy of a classified file, he is declassifying them all. Those documents must be retrieved by security and the necessary redactions and remarkings applied.
When this is done the government no longer considers the document, all of them, to be classified. You should be able to scan them and email them to your friends.
Something in this whole episode just doesn’t add up for me. Trump is too smart to violate security rules. I don’t get it.
Especially when the “CLASSIFIED” markings pertained to the Special Access Program (SAP) documents that Hillary had on her server (for sale to highest bidder) that TRUMP also declassified.
“The only possible way that Trump could have possessed classified documents would be if he removed them AFTER Biden was inaugurated.”
Absolutely. The writer stated it nicely in a way that everyone can understand. So easy even a Democrat can understand it.
When he was President, he had the authority to remove the stuff. He was President until the day he walked out the door.
Doubtful if DOCTOR Jill and PINO Joe invited Trump for tea later on.
there is also a precedent ruling that the National Archives does not control or direct the documents - they are provided by the executive at his or her discretion.
They still got nuthin’.
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