Posted on 06/20/2023 8:02:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fox News analyst Brit Hume said Monday that former President Trump’s defense for keeping classified documents was borderline “incoherent.”
“His answers on the matter of the law seem to verge on incoherent,” Hume said after a portion of Trump’s interview with Fox anchor Bret Baier aired on the network.
“He seemed to be saying the documents were really his and he didn’t give them back when he was requested to do so, and when they were subpoenaed because he wasn’t ready to because he hadn’t sorted them or whatever from his golf shirts,” Hume said. “It was not altogether clear what he was saying, but he seemed to believe that the documents were his, that he had declassified them and therefore he could do whatever he wanted with them.”
Hume cast doubt on the idea that Trump’s explanation would hold up in court.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
And a dumbass, dense “talking head” teletype reader has a brain cell to rub against another one to tell the difference?
Pretty desperate when Faux has to awaken the sleepy, slurring Britt to dust himself off and make his incoherent comments.
Maybe we can negotiate both Biden and Trump dropping out of 2024.
I wonder if he drinks or he’s just too old. The way he speaks now is very odd.
Bingo. To quote Judge Dredd, when it comes to classification, the President can say “I AM the law”.
Article II, Section II provides that: “The President...may require the opinion, in writing,of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices”
Why Presidents might need to retain documents of every type (quote):
“The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”
Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly
“he constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk.”
William Barr, Trump’s former Attorney General
“An earlier draft of his Farewell Address showed how wounded the President[George Washington] was by the attacks on his integrity and motivations: ‘As this Address, Fellow citizens will be the last I shall ever make you, and as some of the Gazettes of the United States have teemed with all the Invective that disappointment, ignorance of facts, and malicious falsehoods could invent, to misrepresent my politics and affections; to wound my reputation and feelings; and to weaken, if not entirely destroy the confidence you had been pleased to repose in me; it might be expected at the parting scene of my public life that I should take some notice of such virulent abuse. But, as heretofore, I shall pass them over in utter silence...’”
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/press-attac
Most of the things in those (and nearly all boxes) are things we Citizens should know.
Very, very little should actually be classified; *only* the precise capabilities of the newest high-end weapon systems, communication techniques, and the identities of active spies.
I say let the fedgov have *one* box of stuff to keep secret per year, automatically becoming public information after 10 years.
It should be harder to classify *anything* than to get a building permit in a wetland.
“After Johnson’s death, Rostow put his documents in a sealed envelope and gave them to the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library....the library opened the envelope in the 1990s, although some of the material has yet to be declassified.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/11/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-lbj/
Seems pretty clear to me. What part of that Brit 79, seems "incoherent" to you?
I heard Hume say that on FNC evening news. Right then and there, I decided to end all ties to Fox. Hume looked angry and agitated.
When you can’t make a real argument you just pretend like you don’t know what the other side is even saying.
Other things that require secrecy:
1. details of methods of finding terrorist leaders and terrorist attack plans
2. algorithms of weapons such as air-to-air missiles
3. attack plans for say Ukraine and for Iranian nuclear-related sites
4. electronic warfare technical plans
5. remaining uranium enrichment secrets
6. remaining nuclear bomb secrets
7. some emergency basing arrangements
8. some foreign country industrial plant information
9. some sourcing information for western weapons systems
10. some biological warfare technology
11. advanced tank armor
12. domestic nuclear material sensor locations
13. suspected and known terrorists and their locations
I hope his attorneys bring up the argument the National Archives staff refused to help Trump and his staff go through the documents and prepare them for removal. In the end, pushed for time had to pack up their own stuff. They helped past Presidents, except Trump.
Trump knowing this should have called a press conference announcing archives refusal to help. That would have helped his case.
I hope his attorneys bring up the argument the National Archives staff refused to help Trump and his staff go through the documents and prepare them for removal. In the end, pushed for time had to pack up their own stuff. They helped past Presidents, except Trump.
Trump knowing this should have called a press conference announcing archives refusal to help. That would have helped his case.
Brit, which law supersedes the Presidential Records Act?
Even assuming that Trump declassified the documents, that doesn’t make them his. The law specifies that if the documents were related in any way to the official or ceremonial duties of the office of the President, they are presidential records and belong to the United States. Classified or declassified does not matter.
Brit is still cashing checks from the Evil Media Empire of Rupert Murdoch?
Haven’t subscribed to FNC since 2016, guess I’m out of touch, thankfully.
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