Judge Amy Berman Jackson
Ruling was not Appealed
Posted on 05/25/2023 8:47:08 PM PDT by bitt
A maintenance worker for the former president recounted helping to move boxes into a storage room a day before a Justice Department official came seeking the return of classified material.
The day before a key meeting last year between a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and officials seeking the return of classified documents in Mr. Trump’s possession, a maintenance worker at the former president’s private club saw an aide moving boxes into a storage room, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The maintenance worker offered to help the aide — Walt Nauta, who was Mr. Trump’s valet in the White House — move the boxes and ended up lending him a hand. But the worker had no idea what was inside the boxes, the person familiar with the matter said. The maintenance worker has shared that account with federal prosecutors, the person said.
The worker’s account is potentially significant to prosecutors as they piece together details of how Mr. Trump handled sensitive documents he took with him from the White House upon leaving office and whether he obstructed efforts by the Justice Department and the National Archives to retrieve them.
Mr. Trump was found to have been keeping some of the documents in the storage room where Mr. Nauta and the maintenance worker were moving boxes on the day before the Justice Department’s top counterintelligence official, Jay Bratt, traveled to Mar-a-Lago last June to seek the return of any government materials being held by the former president.
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https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-32/subtitle-B/chapter-XX
And the various parts and sub-parts there, appear to be Federal Regulations - the law.
There are procedures left to the NARA, that are not yet clear, but in general, since Obama issuing some Executive Orders on the matter, specifically the marking of what is Declassified, may apply in Trump’s case.
Yet, no reason for the government to get excited about that. It is an administrative matter that could be resolved between the NARA and former President Trump, without all the Dept. of Justice theatrics.
https://wcl.american.libguides.com/c.php?g=563256&p=3877994
“These rules are considered legally binding just as any statute.”
Find a credible source for this.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-legal-authority-declassify-intelligence/story?id=47436559
That’s why they’re pursuing Obstruction of Justice because he can Declassify at Will. They’re not charging him with violation of the Espionage Act.
Look up Scooter Libby
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Yah, that’s crazy significant.
Your relying om Bill Barr? I think this fued is driving some freepers crazy.
The only catch, is that - since Obama was in office - the NARA has established how the documents are to be marked DECLASSIFIED.
It is a nit that the DoJ/FBI has chosen to pick. The DoJ/FBI moves, are designed to shed a negative light on Trump, when the issue is a small matter: the markings.
Before Obama, this matter of how and when declassified papers whould be marked . . . was even a smaller matter; but, Obama took steps to refine the policies about the steps to take when classifying and declassifying.
Because, there were apparently many hundreds of thousands of papers that were in the queue to be declassified - but the process had bogged down.
The NARA is supposed to spell out steps for the President to take, but the NARA has let the matter slide (except for the DECLASSIFIED markings), because the general feeling, mood, and thought about, what a President should do, has been left to the President.
The case is meant to look bad for Trump, but the case boils down to:
Shall a former President follow Federal Regulations to the letter, regarding his handling of the papers of his administration and of the United States, which papers fall under either of CLASSIFIED or DECLASSIFIED status.
The left, of course, wants the courts to decide what falls under those two categories, but tradition, and the law still supports the President, former or present, choosing what falls under those two categories . . . except now, if DECLASSFIED, there are some established steps for marking the documents, more clearly so.
There is no “feud.”
Read the information.
The NARA is authorized to establish rules for marking documents.
With regard to documents in the President’s possession and in a former President’s possession, the information in the Federal Regulations, has established how to mark DECLASSIFIED documents.
The DoJ has been trying to stir the pot, where some DECASSIFIED (according to Trump) documents, are not properly marked . . . are therefore to be viewed as CLASSIFIED -and- raise some alarm.
When there is no alarm.
So is this new news or old news?
The problem here isn’t the employee.
It’s the government still trying to pin something on Trump
that is not worthy of any action whatsoever.
We have a national archivist who is trying with all his
might to frame Trump as an abuser of documents.
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton who wasn’t authorized to have even
one single document in her home, had plenty.
Biden has some very poor handling issues, as does Obama.
You know all this, so why are you trying to capitalize on
this issue.
It’s pure bunk and you know it.
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Hillary Sprayed Classified Docs around with her Illegal Scheme.
He left while staff had them, and they were on Huma’s Anthony Weiner’s laptop wher he was entering sex rooms based and hosted in dangerous countries.
Huma also had Classified Docs laying in open sight in her car, as was her Customer. The FBi said she did not have ILL intent.
Hillary said she didn’t know what Classified Markings meant, although she attended yearly mandatory training.
Strzok said there was no Classified data in his search, and later, when confronted, said he just missed them.
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I remember. The left’s favorite: persecution for ‘process crimes.’
I agree with the direction you’re going there.
People in Hillary’s position had to attend monthly
mandatory training, but I have a hard time believing
she who no rules apply to, stooping to lower herself
to honoring such requirements.
Good old Maggie Habermann again. She is Hillary’s and the DNC’s most reliable stenographer.
“During his time in Office”...as it applies to declassify
“So once again, hapless Trump can’t pick his employees well.”
Someone decided to run the $40,000,000+ Mueller Special Counsel against Trump.
That someone could easily buy off a janitor to give testimony against Trump.
Everyone has their price.
Didn’t Trump quip he the top maintenance worker in SE Florida when hired?
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