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I challenge any person who believes this to find a court case where this was presented.

Whoever is Trump's lawyer needs to be fired. This is nonsense stuff.

Time to hire attorneys based on intelligence rather than cup size.

1 posted on 09/22/2022 6:39:50 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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“..... just by “thinking about it....”

Wait. What? Huh!?


2 posted on 09/22/2022 6:41:11 PM PDT by cranked
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Yeah - Trump does not know what he is talking about in this situation.


3 posted on 09/22/2022 6:41:18 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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The Prevailing Ruling - and it was not appealed.

Ruling repeated things like Complete and Sole authority.



5 posted on 09/22/2022 6:44:44 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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The USSC has ruled that the POTUS can declassify documents if he chooses to, just by saying it, and he doesn’t need permission. You should know by now that Trump is prone to exaggeration, so I’m wondering why you’re making a big deal about the exact verbiage he used.


6 posted on 09/22/2022 6:45:23 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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I provided it - what does “at will” mean?

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7 posted on 09/22/2022 6:45:37 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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As far as the MSM-Democrats are concerned, PDJT was never actually President, so he was never legally entitled to declassify anything.


8 posted on 09/22/2022 6:46:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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“This is nonsense stuff.”

A POTUS is the ultimate classification authority. Whatever he deems classified, is classified. Whatever he deems to the contrary, is so. He is the plenary originator of the classification system.

No authority is above POTUS on this matter.

And ABSOLUTELY NO AUTHORITY CAN PROSECUTE HIM FOR A VIOLATION OF CLASSIFICATION LAWS.

If he says they were declassified docs as soon as he took them, nobody can say otherwise.

As long as he deemed them declassified while he was still POTUS.

Who could possibly prove otherwise?


9 posted on 09/22/2022 6:46:29 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Formality isn’t necessary to declassify documents.


10 posted on 09/22/2022 6:46:36 PM PDT by JonPreston
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Hahaha, what a moron.


11 posted on 09/22/2022 6:47:21 PM PDT by nwrep
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Where the hell have you FR TDS clowns been hiding?


12 posted on 09/22/2022 6:48:03 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Are there any precedents here? What might a Constitutional scholar....Alan Dershowitz or Jonathan Turley...have to say about this?
13 posted on 09/22/2022 6:48:14 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/26/obama-administration-goof-reveals-name-of-top-u-s-spy-in-afghanistan/


16 posted on 09/22/2022 6:51:44 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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I don’t think any attorney told him that nonsense. He probably just misspoke and didn’t accurately explain what the lawyers told him.

The more likely explanation is that merely taking an action to remove classified materials to a public — or even somewhat unprotected — domain constitutes a “declassification” process by definition. As the President of the United States he doesn’t have to explain any of this to anyone … because the original classification of the materials is established entirely within the executive branch of the U.S. government.

17 posted on 09/22/2022 6:51:59 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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I challenge any person who believes this to find a court case where this was presented.

I challenge you to find a court case where a president's legitimate constitutional power to declassify was even ever challenged.

Your challenge is nonsense.

18 posted on 09/22/2022 6:53:13 PM PDT by FreeReign
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NeverTrump much?

Be gone Troll!


19 posted on 09/22/2022 6:53:28 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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As soon as Trump decided to take the documents home they were ‘declassified’. That act alone defined the process.

It’s the same as if Trump had used a ‘classified’ statistic in a speech. The act of speaking the statistic by a President means it’s declassified.


21 posted on 09/22/2022 6:54:33 PM PDT by GOPJ (STOP "PROCESSING" ILLEGALS. Democrats will use that as proof of 'documentation'. )
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Did you ever think that maybe President Trump said this to drive the liberals berserk? Besides, the FBI, DOJ, Democrats, and Rinos have been busy these past 7 years thinking of ways to f*ck Trump.


24 posted on 09/22/2022 6:55:44 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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28 posted on 09/22/2022 6:57:03 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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In the ...Fox cut out the part where he said "BECAUSE YOU ARE SENDING TO MAR a LAGO or wherever you are sending it." Just taking or sending the documents declassifies them.

This is true as confirmed by Mark Levin:

2. The former president has the legal right to access any and all of the documents created during his presidency, classified or otherwise. Moreover, the second before he left office, by his very actions alone in taking the documents, it can be said that he declassified them.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 26, 2022

3. This was discussed at length in 2017 when he handed classified information to the Russian foreign minister. The former president cannot be charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for this reason and more, including Article II Sec 1 of the Constitution.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 26, 2022


29 posted on 09/22/2022 6:57:41 PM PDT by conservative98
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What about Obama? When he left the White House, he transported hundreds if not thousands of classified documents to a warehouse that was unsecured, destined for his presidential library.

If Obama isn't prosecuted, then they can't prosecute Trump.

32 posted on 09/22/2022 7:01:15 PM PDT by roadcat
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