It doesn’t take a lawyer to read the Presidential Records Act and realize what Trump and his lawyers are saying is completely bogus.
Go forward to 7:15 in this video to see what Real America’s News showed Kash Patel saying with regard to the law just tonight:
https://americasvoice.news/video/ZkPM0ZefzZepHTe/
Then compare that to the actual text of the law I posted in #74:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4160931/posts?page=74#74
There is no way to reconcile what Patel said with the text of that law. It is nowhere even close to what it says. Even Dershowitz was questioned point blank on that segment and refused to back up what Patel said.
Sure, there are other arguments on Trump’s behalf, and I hope he’s able to successfully use them. But all this misquoting of what the law actually said is in no one’s interest. Short term or long term. It just makes Trump and his team look dishonest.
I would add that ConservativeinPA has also raised a valid point about the constitutionality of some provisions of the Presidential Records Act. It wouldn’t be the first time Congress passed — and a President signed — a law that was unconstitutional on its face. There was a similar discussion here back in early 2017 when James Mattis was under consideration for Secretary of Defense. It was pretty firmly established here that the waiver passed by Congress to allow him to serve in that role — which was deemed necessary because he hadn’t been out of the military for a minimum of ten years as required under 10 U.S. Code §113 — was completely unnecessary because that ten-year “waiting period” is clearly unconstitutional.
Sure, there are other arguments on Trump’s behalf, and I hope he’s able to successfully use them.
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“BS”
You want Trump injured or taken out of the campaign because you think it’ll benefit your boy DeSantis. So you play up this case, which is an unprecedented step against a President, a precedent that hasn’t ever happened in our history.
“Good Luck.”