ca conservative
almost an oxymoron
really
just by taking them
he’s the president
they are de - classified
The President has access to all kinds of classified data, and just because he accesses them or takes them to another location does not mean they are declassified. If that were true, then if someone robbed Mar-a-Lago while Trump was president and took classified documents, then they could be charged with theft, but not with theft of classified information, because by your standard, the documents would have been declassified when he took them to his home.
But once again, whether or not the documents were classified or not is not a critical component of the charges filed against Trump. Classification is not mentioned in the charges. In the first 31 charges, it just mentions national defense information. I don’t think Trump arguing the documents were automatically declassified is going to win the case for him. He’s better off arguing that the PRA is the controlling statute in this case, not the Espionage Act.
ca conservative
almost an oxymoron
I'd recommend not telling JimRob he's "almost an oxymoron". We get enough flak from our leftist neighbors. We don't need it from other Freepers based on where we live.