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Posted on 04/12/2023 1:27:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Federal investigators are asking witnesses whether former President Donald Trump showed off to aides and visitors a map he took with him when he left office that contains sensitive intelligence information, four people with knowledge of the matter said.
The map has been just one focus of the broad Justice Department investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he departed the White House.
The nature of the map and the information it contained is not clear. But investigators have questioned a number of witnesses about it, according to the people with knowledge of the matter, as the special counsel overseeing the Justice Department’s Trump-focused inquiries, Jack Smith, examines the former president’s handling of classified material after leaving office and weighs charges that could include obstruction of justice.
One person briefed on the matter said investigators have asked about Trump showing the map while aboard a plane. Another said that, based on the questions they were asking, investigators appeared to believe that Trump showed the map to at least one adviser after leaving office.
A third person with knowledge of the investigation said the map might also have been shown to a journalist writing a book.
The question of whether Trump was displaying sensitive material in his possession after he lost the presidency and left office is crucial as investigators try to reconstruct what Trump was doing with boxes of documents that went with him to his Florida residence and private club, Mar-a-Lago.
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Gee. Who then has the authority to control the CHIEF EXECUTIVE?
https://lawandcrime.com/politics/aba-fact-check-the-extent-of-presidential-legal-authority-to-declassify-materials-is-still-unclear/
Your preference for telepathic White House staffers and Biden being above any kind of law is noted.
You say you’re for smaller government, yet here you are giving de facto support to almost 8 years of the US government harassing Donald Trump and his associates.
I cranky don’t care if some people saw a map as those rules don’t matter to anyone outside of the Trump sphere.
I remember the demons were calling for Trump’s arrest after drawing on a hurricane map with a sharpie.
By the way, it was blowing hard in the south of Ireland today, so there were at least two blowhards in the country.
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Dan Abrams? You’re kidding, right? 😂
You say you’re for smaller government, yet here you are giving de facto support to almost 8 years of the US government harassing Donald Trump and his associates.
Small government means government officials, including the President, aren't above the law. I certainly don't want Biden (or whoever is really running the show) to have unlimited power. As for being "pro-harassment" I offered a reasonable suggestion for how Trump could get rid of this problem. If you don't like it, feel free to post your own idea.
What I just read tells me that you favor the government investigating people in order to try and find a crime, which is exactly what has been happening to Trump since he was elected.
Good job, Comrade.
So you’re okay with Biden being able to declassify anything with a mere thought and you don’t have any ideas of your own for how Trump can get out of this. Got it.
Yes, I’m good with that since the ultimate declassifying authority is the President of the United States.
There is a remedy that’s called impeachment and removal if it’s egregious. Who should tell a President what should/shouldn’t be classified?
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