Posted on 05/17/2023 6:51:57 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The National Archives is claiming it has evidence that may undercut Trump’s claims that the presidential records he took to Mar-a-Lago were automatically declassified, according to a leak to CNN.
Trump says the documents were declassified as soon as he took them to Mar-a-Lago.
Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall however, claims there is evidence Trump and his advisors knew of a so-called declassification process.
Steidel Wall sent Trump a letter informing him the National Archives are going to give Special Counsel Jack Smith 16 records which may prove the documents were not automatically declassified.
And the witch hunt continues.
CNN reported:
The National Archives has informed former president Donald Trump that it is set to hand over to special counsel Jack Smith 16 records which show Trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process while he was president, according to multiple sources.
In a May 16 letter obtained by CNN, acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall writes to Trump, “The 16 records in question all reflect communications involving close presidential advisers, some of them directed to you personally, concerning whether, why, and how you should declassify certain classified records.”
The 16 presidential records, which were subpoenaed earlier this year, may provide critical evidence establishing the former president’s awareness of the declassification process, a key part of the criminal investigation into Trump’s mishandling of classified documents.
According to the letter, Trump tried to block the special counsel from accessing the 16 records by asserting a claim of “constitutionally based privilege.” But in her letter, Wall rejects that claim, stating that the special counsel’s office has represented that it “is prepared to demonstrate with specificity to a court, why it is likely that the 16 records contain evidence that would be important to the grand jury’s investigation.”
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B to the S.
He’s the President. Whatever he says is declassified is declassified.
Whether that utterance is stated allowed or uttered under breath.
They have no authority over his declass authority, period.
They have no evidence that over ride a presidents right to declassify. These folks need to be terminated and their pensions revoked.
So what excuse is there for Biden and Pence taking records.?
The "declassification process" is established entirely within the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. This means the President's actions in handling classified materials isn't subject to interpretation by anyone outside the office of the President.
They’re all damn liars.
= that may not
There is no way for the President to mishandle documents. He has the explicit power to declassify at will. The Archives can’t change the Presidential powers act. Its pretty specifically worded and wide ranging.
Yep! Notice the timing of a poll released today that Biden would wallop Trump and lose both houses if he is the Republican presidential nominee. My GOD PLEASE DELIVER US FROM THESE EVIL EVIL DEMONIC POS DC SWAMP DEMONS!!! PLEASESSSE🙏🏻
The President decides what’s classified, not some Deep State professional affirmative action bureaucrat.
The walls are closing in...Take 4,392.
They’re trying to fool people into believing that bureaucratic procedures somehow Trump a president’s constitutional authority. Nonsense.
We will win back the Senate.
Under the espionage act, it doesn’t matter if they were declassified. The items covered under that act are not allowed outside of government facilities.
This is to bump the Durham report out of the newspapers (which didn’t write much about it anyway).
Another pleauge that Woodrow Wilson gave us.
Not true in Trumps case.
He needed to check with the Inter-Galactic Federation before he did anything like that.
I saw an interesting video of Rep Clyde questioning Wray about the whole thing.
He pretty much lays out a bullet proof defense as there’s already case law dating back to Clinton. And the statute is not criminal, nor are there any penalties. So where does the obstruction come into play?
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