Posted on 01/18/2024 10:48:05 AM PST by bitt
In Florida trial involving classified documents, Donald Trump’s lawyers are seeking more information about a Department of Energy clearance list
Former president Donald Trump’s lawyers say they may use evidence suggesting that Trump had a high-level security clearance as recently as last year to bolster their defense that the former president was acting in “good-faith and non-criminal states of mind” when he took sensitive documents from the White House to his Florida residence after leaving office.
The revelation came in a legal filing late Tuesday night in which Trump’s attorneys urged Judge Aileen M. Cannon — who is overseeing Trump’s federal trial in Florida for allegedly mishandling classified documents — to force prosecutors to produce more information about the evidence they have about the former president. A “motion to compel discovery” is a standard part of pre-trial legal proceedings.
In the 65-page filing, Trump’s lawyers disclosed some of the defenses they plan to use in the case, one of four criminal trials Trump is facing. They asked for communication between prosecutors and the Biden administration, which they said could show that the indictment against Trump is politically motivated, and they argued that prosecutors must show more evidence that Trump damaged national security by possessing the documents.
Among the more specific possible defenses: Lawyers for Trump say he had an active security clearance years after leaving the White House, based on a government document from June 2023 that still listed him with a “Q” clearance from the Department of Energy. The document was dated a few weeks after prosecutors indicted Trump in the case. He faces 40 counts related to willful retention of national defense information; obstruction, withholding or altering of documents; and making false statements, and has pleaded not guilty.
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This is simply a political persecution, like all the others.
It will never get fully adjudicated prior to Trump being sworn in, so it’s a waste of time and money.
Does that mean that Donald Trump is Q?
That's how Sandy Berger was able to get into a National Archives SKIF and stuff classified documents down his pants after he left the Clinton Administration (for which he was fined $500,000, 2 years probation, and 100 hours of community service.)
He and 90K-plus other people...
“Q” huh?? Hmmm
not behind a paywall...
I have heard all the feds found at Maralago were empty folders stamped classified on the front. It jives with the fact that they won’t disclose what they found. They’re trying to say what they found was so classified that it cannot be brought into evidence. Just take their word for it.
Of the 5000 Q posts, around 30 are signed off by “Q +.” Those 30 posts were made by DJT.
You will see that Trump has shared various images on social media that includes a “Q +”
I had a nuclear weapons clearance but it probably went away after I got out of the Army.
There’s clearance, and there’s “need to know.” I remember the retired Navy guy in charge of maintenance in my high school bragging anout his Top Secret security clearance. Yeah...and...?
It caught my attention, and I had to check out the term myself, I'll admit.
That what i was thinking. John Brennan and the rest of the Russia gate crew had clearance while being former employees . Trump removed Brennans security personally after the fact. Not sure about the others.
Wow, I thought I was only DOE/NNSA/OST guy on this board. What years?
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