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As president, Trump approved a law increasing penalties for mishandling classified info. It could come back to bite him.
Business insider ^
| 8/22/2022
| Tom Porter
Posted on 06/08/2023 5:23:51 PM PDT by tarpit
Donald Trump in 2018 signed a sweeping national security bill into law. The bill increased punishments for those who mishandle classified information. The measure is of note after the Mar-a-Lago raid, thought to be connected to government documents.
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KEYWORDS: classified; globalistpropaganda; indictment; law; tomporter; trump
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:23:51 PM PDT
by
tarpit
To: tarpit
Will it also bite Biden and Pence?
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:26:02 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
To: tarpit
But he had the power to declassify anything he wanted to.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:26:43 PM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
To: tarpit
The Dems are in power and don’t hesitate to use it. The GOP should learn that lesson.
To: jmaroneps37
This is going to come back to bite the Dems. If they had something to convict him, they would have gotten him years ago. But now they have to charge him for doing something Clinton proved in court he’s innocent of.
But the point is to keep him in court continually during campaigning.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:28:23 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: McGavin999
Will it also bite Biden and Pence?That's crazy talk.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:28:48 PM PDT
by
The Iceman Cometh
(Casey DeSantis? No thanks. I've already voted for too many Bushes.)
To: tarpit
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:29:36 PM PDT
by
cowboyusa
(YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
To: tarpit
Hillary Clinton should become acquainted with that law.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:30:20 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
To: tarpit
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:30:42 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The Democrat Party - Dumbing Down America Since 1965.)
To: tarpit
In a good segment of encapsulation, Newsmax host Greg Kelly does a great job outlining how the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) created a double-standard specifically to target President Donald Trump after he left office.
{Direct Rumble Link}
Kelly highlights remarks by former Trump attorney Timothy Parlatore who was responsible for trying to reconcile the issues that NARA had created. I’ve also included further context with video segments from Tim Parlatore below.
WATCH:
Additional information from Parlatore is below.
If you are deep in the political research weeds about the weaponization of government, there is a letter from lawyers representing President Trump to the chair of the House Intel Committee that is very interesting [pdf available here].
The letter is written to HPSCI Chair Mike Turner and copied to the other seven members of the gang-of-eight in the Senate and House. The letter outlines the details of the documents that became the contested issue between the DOJ-National Security Division (‘NSD’, important distinction), specifically a DOJ-NSD official named Jay Bratt, and the attorney for President Trump, Mr. Evan Corcoran.
![](https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mar-a-Lago-Raid-Banner-v2-e1663180113951-1024x444.jpg)
The letter is fascinating because it outlines how the process of moving documents from the White House was weaponized by a politically motivated National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”), and the letter also gives fulsome context to the types of “classified materials” that have been insanely over emphasized by media.
[…] “Tim Parlatore and Jim Trusty, two of the undersigned counsel for President Trump, reviewed all 15 boxes at NARA earlier this year and based on that review, it is clear to us what happened. The boxes contain all manner of documents from the White House, are loosely grouped by date, and include newspapers, magazines, notes, letters, and daily schedules. Following its review of the materials, NARA inserted placeholder pages where it had removed documents with classification markings. That allowed Messrs. Parlatore and Trusty to discern what the documents were, as well as what other materials in the boxes were in the proximity of the marked documents when the White House staff packed them. The vast majority of the placeholder inserts refer to briefings for phone calls with foreign leaders that were located near the schedule for those calls.” (page 3, pdf link)
Additionally, get this part… despite the standard process that has been in place for the prior four administrations, the NARA refused to participate in the collection of any documents from the White House during the transition phase following the November 2020 election.
The NARA refused to assist in the collection of the Trump records for national archive holding and review, and then the NARA triggered a sequence of events that led to the DOJ using a reference from the NARA, to weaponize a process they refused to engage in. The NARA refused to do their specialized bureaucratic job, and then the NARA used what they defined as an incomplete job as a reason to refer the outcome to the DOJ. The details are quite interesting.
The letter details how the DOJ-NSD then weaponized the process, fought with the FBI investigative and supervisory agents who were saying Trump was doing nothing wrong, and then culminating in a documented lie to the Florida magistrate, in order to get a politically motivated search warrant.
The DOJ will not release the documents they used to convince the judge to obtain the warrant. Additionally, the DOJ will not release a list of the documents, or even describe the documents, they later claimed are classified. To this date, the Trump defense team is being told President Trump held classified documents, yet the DOJ will not describe to the lawyers who represent President Trump, what those classified documents are.
I strongly urge anyone interested to read the 10-page letter. It is a key part of the puzzle being explained and outlined.
![](https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/trump-lawyers-to-hpsci-documents.jpg)
If, like me, you see the elements of the Washington DC corruption through a prism of bipartisan participation and purposefully blind willfulness; and if you overlay the entire mechanics of what we can document to be undeniably true about the scale and scope of the participating enterprises who operate within this corrupt system of government; and if you accept that multinational corporations, mega-financial conglomerates, and powerful interests in control of money are the true seats of power behind the DC Potemkin Village; then you can fully grasp how this specific part of the weaponized government against Donald Trump system fits into the bigger picture.
The depth of the DC corruption is stunning; yet so too is the intensity of the sunlight that is so easy to put upon it with simple truths.
This is not an 800lb gorilla sitting in the corner of the room that everyone pretends not to see.
This scale of corruption is more akin to a 30,000 lb blue whale laying on top of the house, fin and flippers hitting the ground and crushing the neighbors’ rose bushes, while the tail blocks the streets and the stench of it all permeates the air for a dozen miles…. Yet, the owners of the house keep inviting everyone to the cocktail parties, and the guests pretend not to notice anything.
The scale of pretending, and their belief that we cannot see it, is just so weird.
![](https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/David-Plouffe-1.jpg)
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:31:51 PM PDT
by
Bratch
To: tarpit
He didn’t mishandle info. #1 he could declasify whatever he wanted. #2 they knew exactly what he was taking with him, he had a dam list.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:32:58 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: tarpit
This is a revenge indictment on behalf of Hillary Clinton:
CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
🚨🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump is facing five years in prison and a felony because of a law HE SIGNED in attempt to punish Hillary Clinton in 2018.
The law HE SIGNED upgrades the crime of wrongly moving classified material from a misdemeanor to a felony.
Trump signed the bill after spending the 2016 presidential campaign accusing Hillary Clinton of improperly handling classified information.
“Trump certainly has legal exposure to Section 1924 given it was classified documents from his spaces in the White House that were removed to Mar-Lago,” said attorney Bradley P. Moss.
This evening, Trump posted on Truth Social that he would be indicted.
Trump said he must report to a Miami courthouse this Tuesday.
6:45 PM · Jun 8, 2023
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:36:34 PM PDT
by
Macho MAGA Man
(The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
To: EQAndyBuzz
How much you wanna bet it doesn’t apply to Presidents.
POTUS have different rules, or you could wait 14 months for different bureaus to sign off, and that’s just round one.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:37:19 PM PDT
by
OakOak
(Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
To: tarpit
The reason the Feds refuse to identify the document in question and say they will never identify it is because there isn’t one.
They just want to drag it out until after the 2024 election and say he can’t run for President because he’s under indictment.
They have no case. They know it. We know. They know we know it. We know they know we know it. But they don’t care.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:37:29 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
To: tarpit
The bill increased punishments for those who mishandle classified information. Might matter if he did that. But he didn't.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:42:04 PM PDT
by
MileHi
((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The only way they can stop Trump from running is to assassinate him.
Bogus indictments won’t stop him.
Biden’s poll numbers must be really bad for this lunacy to be continuing.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:44:12 PM PDT
by
unclebankster
( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
To: jmaroneps37
Those democrats are monsters and would be happiest if all Conservatives suffered and died.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:48:02 PM PDT
by
bitt
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To: tarpit
It’s not possible for the President of the United States to “mishandle” classified material.
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:48:11 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: MileHi
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posted on
06/08/2023 5:49:13 PM PDT
by
tarpit
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