Posted on 08/23/2022 12:01:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Archives discovered more than 700 pages of classified documents at Donald Trump's Florida home in addition to material seized this month by FBI agents, according to a newly disclosed May letter the records agency sent to the Republican former president's attorney.
The large quantity of classified material in 15 boxes recovered in January by the National Archives and Records Administration, some marked as "top secret," provides more insight into what led to the FBI's court-authorized Aug. 8 search of Trump's residence at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.
The agency is responsible for preserving government records.
The May 10 letter was sent by Acting U.S. Archivist Debra Steidel Wall to Trump attorney Evan Corcoran. It was released late on Monday by John Solomon, a conservative journalist who Trump authorized in June to access his presidential records.
The letter shows that Trump's legal team repeatedly tried to stall the Archives from letting the FBI and intelligence officials review the materials, saying he needed more time to determine if any of the records were covered by a doctrine called executive privilege that enables a president to shield some records.
President Joe Biden's administration - specifically the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel - has determined that the materials were not covered by executive privilege. It found "there is no precedent" for a former president to shield records from a sitting president using executive privilege when the materials in question legally belong to the federal government, according to the letter.
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All FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE and INADMISSABLE AS EVIDENCE because illegally obtained from an unconstitutional search that violated a show of PROBABLE CAUSE as required by the 4th Amendment.
He declassified them while he was still in office.
This is total BS.
And none were available online
PROPAGANDA!
‘Shielding records’.. like 30K emails..
Can't you just picture the troll, sitting there counting pages, salivating all over the desk?
If Trump declassified them then they aren’t really “classified”.
Oh, BS! If there were actually top secret stuff back in Jan, and the DOJ was told in writing in May; what the ‘Ell have those worthless TWOTs doing since then?
If there is a risk, act! Otherwise, this is nothing more than more lies brought to you by the same people who did the Russia collusion scam, and believed by the same batch of mouth breathers.
FIFY
Didn’t Hussein have 3M?
Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel - has determined that the materials were not covered by executive privilege.
No word of Obama’s 30 million pages some more the the democrats Salem burning of Trump.
First it was 100 ‘classified’ documents, then 300, and now it’s 700! Maybe we should start a betting pool on when the propaganda ministries have it breaking 1,000. I give it a day or two.
What do you expect from Yahoo?
We have now entered the daily MSM drip stage. It is the same BS they used during the Russia hoax.
There were no classified or top secret documents. The documents are so unclassified that they could all be published in the Washington Post.
How come the corrupt news media has access to what the FBI found? I thought this was all suppose to be secret....
Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow
1. This is how the crooked DOJ works: leak to the corrupt NY Slimes about “classified documents” to create a narrative, while in court claiming the need for secrecy, thereby character assassinating President Trump and making it nearly impossible to defend one’s self.
That recent WSJ article co-authored by whats-his-name Rivkin puts the lie to this article.
This is a good reminder of why government employed liberals are so dangerous. They have no qualms about spending your tax dollars to perpetrate abuse and lies.
And then they accuse their opponents of doing what they themselves do and have done and are doing. And will do.
This ^. The media, the DOJ and the Democrats (I repeat myself) need everyone to ignore that Trump declassified it all.
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