How did he obstruct justice? The Presidential Records Act, adopted in 1978, allows presidents to declassify and keep anything they chose.
It defines no formal process for declassification. Only presidents have this authority, and any arguments under the Act are a civil, not a criminal, matter.
Trump’s lawyers were continuously negotiating with the National Archives, and the materials were under constant Secret Service protection in a single place, unlike Joe Biden, who never had authority to have such materials and kept them for 40 years(?!) in as many as seven, unsecured places to which innumerable, unknowable people had access.
Trump even gave the FBI full access, personally told them to let him know if they needed anything else, and added an additional lock when they later asked for one. The DOJ also has a policy never to prosecute a political candidate during an election, but this case is different because Trump.
It’s rather hard for the rational person to see how that constitutes obstruction of justice, but Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers see things differently than the sane.
IMHO I suspect that every president alive has classified documents in his library. All should be investigated if one is investigated...
If they get Trump on this, they will have to make Biden fall as well. Because there can’t be a double standard justice system in America.
But maybe that is their secret wish/plan?
Because the Democrats secretly don’t want Biden at all...
Thus, they would get a win-win if the plan goes through...
Takes courage to dismiss the case. I’ll wait.
I am at the point that if justice can’t be equal and blind for everyone then nobody should have it. Blow up the system completely. It is worthless like it is now. Worse than that, it is dangerous this has already been seen.
U.S. Media: Sources Say Secret Intelligence On Alleged Russian Election Meddling Went Missing
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-election-meddling-intelligence-binder-missing-trump/32733302.html
They were really after the binder which contained information about the 2016 effort to frame Trump as a Russian agent.
“We caught them all”
Donald Trump
He is charged with violation of the much older Espionage Act. The Espionage act (origin in WW1) predates the modern classificaion scheme (origin WW2) and the laws that enforce it.
BECAUSE: Everything you say (and others have said) is TRUE: Trump did have the right to declassify thing, as he saw fit, without a requirement to follow any particular process, the STATE is not claiming he broke any "Classified Documents" law.
They are claiming he broke the Espionage Act by providing (or not protecting) material potentially beneficial to an enemy.
You can read the indictment yourself to verify this. Most people (including apparently most MSM reporters) don't bother to do that. (Lazy jerks).
But what about his mean tweets? 🤪
selective prosecution and jim crow trials aimed at conservatives.
America in 2024
It’s rather hard for the rational person to see how that constitutes obstruction of justice,
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That’s not obstruction. The obstruction charge comes from Trump directing his aides to move the documents.
I am of the opinion that the records act and the other law(s) applied by DOJ against Trump do not and were never meant to apply to a president or former president. I don’t exactly remember how I reached that conclusion but I doubt I am the only person who believes it.
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The last few years of judicial malfeasance have shown us that “standing” and “obstruction” are the two most easily twisted concepts in the leftist “justice system’s” toolbox. They’ve turned both into convenient weapons to thwart any attempt at achieving actual justice for their political enemies.
It’s rather hard for the rational person to see how that constitutes obstruction of justice, but Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers see things differently than the sane>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Its more than TrumpDerangement Syndrome.That has beocme our catch all designation which covers up what has really happened IMHO
I look at events with a historians eye, historical analysis and the collective if events reveal what actually occurred over the last 4 years that AMerica does not know.
The CIA was tasked with the assassination of president Trump if he arrived at the Capitol, IMHO.
The Secret Service got wind of the plot and the false flag operation run by the DOJ, FBI , Washington Capitol Police,
and the DNC, Pelosi, Schumer. Milley and other Dem fascists.
The Secret Service on January 6th saved PDJT’s life.Trump took proof pf that operation with him to Mara Largo in documents he had declassified.
The FBI raided Mara Largo t get those documents back, because they were obtained by Trumps intelligence staf ( NSA) from inside the FBI and DOJ.When the Smithsonian idiots discovered that TRump had those documents in their document review process, they informed the Fascists at FBI and all hell broke loose. Jack Smith is involved but Trump is using the discovery process to get those documents back and make them public, a major fear of Smith , Garland and Biden.But they are supposedly classified Top Secret even though Trump declassified them. JUdge Cannon knows all this.
Thats what I think happened, its the only theory that explains the extreme action of the Deep State and their pursuit of Trump.
If they physically harm Trump now, the nation will rise up in revolt.
These facts need to be discovered and widely published prior to the election.
Wray, who had admitted he had assets on the ground within the crowd on Jan 6th ( John Sullivan who filmed the shooting of Ashlee Babbit, and Ray Epps are two of them) is refusing to reveal what those were and what they were doing. Wray should be keel hauled by Congress , arrested by US Marshals, and put under military intelligence interrogation, preferably by the US Marines who have a duty to protect the president.
ALL of this has been kept hushed up . Remember when the Jan 6th Congressional Committee published that Trump lunged for the steering wheel of the Beast (sic) limosine, he wanted to go to the Capitol so badly? It was a complete fabrication to cover up the fact that the Secret Service got wind of the assassination plot,( and Mike Pence may have been in on it) and refused to take the President to the Capitol, informing PDJT of the plot, reporting they could not guarantee his safety that day at the Capitol because it was a false flag operation set up to kill Trump himself.
When Trump failed to show at the capitol, the FBI, and CIA black ops were frustrated so they got the crowd to enter the capitol, opening the doors wide, the Capitol Police inviting the People right in, while others entered through windows and doors smashed by FBI assets on the ground.
It was plan B,they created the meme that Trump caused the insurrection himself. They actually looked like Wiley Coyote pursuing the road runner and failing. In short the whole collective of the CIA,DOJ, FBI, Washington Capitol Police, running a so called counter espionage operation costing millions, looked like complete idiots,forced to go to that Plan B, and pursuing tresspass offences against the entrapped People who had entered the Capitol, casting a chill on free speech and freedom of movement in America altogether, and also revealing the ugliness of their fascism to America.
Then to add insult to injury, The J6 Congressional Committee committed a huge crime by destroying evidence they had gathered that would support the reveal of the assassination attempt on PDJTs life. Thats the long and short of it.
May Divine Providence continue to protect PDJT, and bring about the peace, support and protection of Israel.
And may those in the deep state involved in trying to assssinate President Trump be put in chains , perp walked, indicted and tried for espionage and treason, and put in front of a firing squad. Why do you think so many are scared to death of Trumps re-election?
“We want to be very transparent, so as you know, I declassified everything, Trump told reporters. We are exposing everything.”’
President Donald Trump
May 25, 2019
The big difference, Biteme did it while he was a Senator and VP. He broke the law and he should be tried.
This is going to be told at trial. If all this happened, he will be acquitted.
He was the only president who has been charged over his handling of classified material.
That was before the pre Marxist days now the are in charge of the courts.
Things change but not for the better when people don’t notice or care about the changes being made.