RE: It’s all declassified
How do you counter this argument from the opposition ( see article ):
“He says point-blank, on tape, ‘As president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t.’ He says, in his own words, it’s on tape as part of this indictment, that he did not declassify the material. Therefore, it is classified.”
Also, how do you explain this to a jury?
The NARA contacted him in May of 2021. The conversation took place in July of 2021.
He was being sarcastic about their request.
Everybody is hanging their hat on that one phrase.
What was the full context of the conversation?
Trump has a habit of jumping around many topics verbally. The media and his critics have a habit of taking him out of context. Remember his comment about the similarities between the Covid-19 vaccine and bleach? Trump never said nor suggested anyone inject bleach into their arms, he was making an analogy as to how the vaccine would work. Yet the media and Dems took that one portion of his comment to infer he was indeed making that suggestion.
Since everyone is so fixated on that small portion about classification, I’m going to bet that once the entire transcript is released, it will suggest an entire different meaning.
The media wants everyone to concentrate on that one phrase. Why?
Did you fail grammar?
“‘As president I could have declassified it. Now I can’t.’ “
Simple: He didn’t want to show it to someone and used that as an excuse.