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Trump Wins’ – Leftists Melt Down Over Judge Cannon’s Jury Instructions in Jack Smith’s Classified Docs Case
The Gateway Pundit ^ | March 19, 2024 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 03/19/2024 4:26:36 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Judge Aileen Cannon issued a jury instruction order in Jack Smith’s classified documents case and the leftist legal analysts are going apocalyptic.

Cannon gave two options for jury instructions.

The first option:

In a prosecution of a former president for allegedly retaining documents in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), a jury is permitted to examine a record retained by a former president in his/her personal possession at the end of his/her presidency and make a factual finding as to whether the government has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that it is personal or presidential using the definitions set forth in the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

The second option is:

A president has sole authority under the PRA to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency. Neither a court nor a jury is permitted to make or review such a categorization decision. Although there is no formal means in the PRA by which a president is to make that categorization, an outgoing president’s decision to exclude what he/she considers to be personal records from presidential records transmitted to the National Archives and Records Administration constitutes a president’s categorization of those records as personal under the PRA.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: classifieddocs; eileencannon; jacksmith; maralago; maralagoraid; persecution; pra; trump; trumppersecution
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Bottom line, a president as the authority to declassify any classified document, and there is no appeal to that declassification action. A Vice President or Senator does not have the authority to declassify anything.
1 posted on 03/19/2024 4:26:36 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Can Judge Cannon make a quickie judgement on Veggie Pedo Pete’s chicom bribes? Please?


2 posted on 03/19/2024 4:29:59 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I don’t need a judge to tell me that.

Know it all snarky FReepers might need it though


3 posted on 03/19/2024 4:35:15 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

☺️


4 posted on 03/19/2024 4:35:44 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“ A Vice President or Senator does not have the authority to declassify anything”

Correct. I might add that a former first “ lady” who was a Senator and then a Secretary of State doesn’t either.

Now that we have established that former office holders can be prosecuted, the future is gonna be lit!


5 posted on 03/19/2024 4:35:55 PM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“leftist legal analysts are going apocalyptic.” So, they are in their natural state. Good.


6 posted on 03/19/2024 4:36:01 PM PDT by cdcdawg (The "rainbow flag" is the symbol of Western neo-imperialism. )
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To: Fledermaus

“Know it all snarky FReepers might need it though”

___________

Bears repeating.


7 posted on 03/19/2024 4:44:09 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
I was just on Reddit /politics and I just don’t understand how people in this country got so polarized. Libs over there are insane with hate about this and Trump and to tell truth there are many here who share an opposite but just as powerful hate going the other way.

I don’t see how this country can be truly reunified unless blood is shed. So very sad.
8 posted on 03/19/2024 4:48:39 PM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

If the POTUS says it is not classified, IT IS NOT CLASSIFIED. Since POTUS Trump has declared it to be “NOT CLASSIFIED” then it can certainly be shown to a jury.

What are you hiding, Jack?


9 posted on 03/19/2024 4:49:25 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: The Louiswu

Drugs and pure hate.


10 posted on 03/19/2024 4:53:12 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
"A Vice President or Senator does not have the authority to declassify anything."

And neither does the DOJ/FBI. I content a photo taken in a SCIF would have the highest classification of that SCIF. So this photo should be classified TS/SCI and had downgrade markings on it. As such the DOJ is guilty of leaking classified information.

I'd like to see the DOJ explain that.

Judge in Trump classified documents case grapples with explantations to a  jury
11 posted on 03/19/2024 4:55:03 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man; bitt; little jeremiah

Heads up


12 posted on 03/19/2024 4:57:36 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

And there is no process that has been defined by which the President declassifies information. He can declare that by having put this in a box and carried it out the door it is DECLASSIFIED. Done.


13 posted on 03/19/2024 5:11:04 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Essentially the Founders wrote that if the government is the sea, the President is the orca. Who is the boss of the orca?

The Founders wrote that there’s no critter in the ocean to stop the President, except the voter and an impeaching/convicting Congress.

Judge Cannon has so much testosterone, she’s got quarts to share.


14 posted on 03/19/2024 5:11:13 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

OH NOOOOOOOOOEZ !!!!


15 posted on 03/19/2024 5:14:27 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: thinden

Splody heads. HA HA


16 posted on 03/19/2024 5:15:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Cover sheets are not classified. They are the unclassified warning that the materials underneath the cover sheets are classified.


17 posted on 03/19/2024 5:25:51 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

My understanding - I am not a lawyer - is that it doesn’t matter if the documents were classified, declassified, never classified. President Trump was told to return them, he didn’t, and he hid them. Isn’t that what the case is about?

“The 49-page indictment filed by special counsel Jack Smith includes the following criminal charges:

Willful retention of national defense information

Conspiracy to obstruct justice

Withholding of a document or record

Corruptly concealing a document or record

Concealing a document in a federal investigation

Scheme to conceal

False statements and representations”

Bringing up secret or classification is only to hurt President Trump in the election by painting him as careless or worse.


18 posted on 03/19/2024 5:31:12 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick (DEATH POKE!)
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To: Fledermaus

Now that you mention it, there is an incredible amount of self centered arrogant people posting on this site lately......


19 posted on 03/19/2024 5:32:09 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: The Louiswu

It all boils down to:

“Just leave us alone.”
“No.”


20 posted on 03/19/2024 5:33:57 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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