Posted on 05/17/2023 6:51:57 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The National Archives is claiming it has evidence that may undercut Trump’s claims that the presidential records he took to Mar-a-Lago were automatically declassified, according to a leak to CNN.
Trump says the documents were declassified as soon as he took them to Mar-a-Lago.
Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall however, claims there is evidence Trump and his advisors knew of a so-called declassification process.
Steidel Wall sent Trump a letter informing him the National Archives are going to give Special Counsel Jack Smith 16 records which may prove the documents were not automatically declassified.
And the witch hunt continues.
CNN reported:
The National Archives has informed former president Donald Trump that it is set to hand over to special counsel Jack Smith 16 records which show Trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process while he was president, according to multiple sources.
In a May 16 letter obtained by CNN, acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall writes to Trump, “The 16 records in question all reflect communications involving close presidential advisers, some of them directed to you personally, concerning whether, why, and how you should declassify certain classified records.”
The 16 presidential records, which were subpoenaed earlier this year, may provide critical evidence establishing the former president’s awareness of the declassification process, a key part of the criminal investigation into Trump’s mishandling of classified documents.
According to the letter, Trump tried to block the special counsel from accessing the 16 records by asserting a claim of “constitutionally based privilege.” But in her letter, Wall rejects that claim, stating that the special counsel’s office has represented that it “is prepared to demonstrate with specificity to a court, why it is likely that the 16 records contain evidence that would be important to the grand jury’s investigation.”
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And Her Witchiness Clinton with the illegal server handing classified documents...and open for the whole world to see.
Please cite the provisions of the Espionage Act that relate to what you’ve posted there.
the President of the United States has the right to declassify any and all documents for any reason of his choosing. Period.
If Trump's statements are accurate, Trump did nothing wrong and was complying with the feds during inspections, but he is still going to lose on this one, and in a DC court, we all know how that will play out.
Yes, it's BS, but as far as we know, there's no memo or documentation that memorialized his blanket declassification decision, and he never released the supposedly declassified files to the public, which means they could be easily reclassified and reclaimed by the government by a successor.
If Trump had a staff that actually took care of him, his decisions on declassification upon movement to Mar a lago would be diligently recorded and memorialized to prevent, or at least stave off prosecution for exactly what has happened.
Even if all of the classification stuff were swept under the rug because it's executive authority, the declassified documents would still be government docs and fall under FOIA, which is outside presidential purview.
After the D.C. court the court of appeals. After that SCOTUS.
Trump will win.
This will be interesting to see at the SCOTUS, if it makes it there. Presumably, the POTUS and only the POTUS is the single arbiter of what is and isn’t classified. And as such, can tell the National Archives what they can do with their “processes.”
The bigger question is why there isn’t any interest in the classified documents that FJB had. He literally had absolutely no right to have ANY classified documents in his possession as a Senator/ex-Senator or Vice President/ex Vice President. He couldn’t have granted himself any rights to have them and as such, violated multiples for every single classified document that he had. And with reports of him having hundreds of documents, he would have the possibility of facing hundred, if not thousands, of individual charges.
But he is a Democrat . . .
They’re scared sh!tless of 2024. They should be.
But, no problem with VP Biden keeping them in his garage.
Yes because the VP cannot declassify.
Well, the rape case didn’t go anywhere, so they’re moving on to the NEXT thing. They know these are all BS cases, they just want to drive the narrative that Trump is SO BAD that everything he does is illegal!
(Just waiting for someone to bring up something that “Should he somehow win the presidency, he could be impeached for!”. That’s the only thing missing, and I figure I’ll have to wait until next summer for that one.)
Where was that poll conducted?
Berkeley, California?
My guess? They have him dead to rights on it,
and the indictment will come down sometime in July-August time frame. DOJ is just now using the NARA assertion to start to lock in the case at the highest level, then Garland makes the political decision to light the fuse or not.
It is almost certain , or some of (enough of), his closest aides and body men and valets in M-A-L flipped, not to mention even possibly members of his family.
I doubt any of his immediate family would snitch on him.
Don Jr, Eric, Lara, Guilfoyle (if you count her), Barron, Melania, Tiffany, agreed. As for Ivanka and Jared, well, thats a whollllllllleeee different ball game with those two.
These jerks are so pathetic. No one cares. This crap has been going on for decades. The jerks who mention “nuclear codes” reveal themselves as clueless idiots.
Trump could declassify them at will. It’s not possible they weren’t Declassified.
I’m with you here. Even if you has the “nuclear codes,” you would need unrestricted access to the detonation communication system. Which might get noticed when detonation orders started coming through Twitter. It’s absurd to think anyone but POTUS could fire a first strike nuke without full access to the triggering systems. And if they haven’t put bio readers in that system by now, they are idiots.
The nuclear codes are changed on a regular basis. Realistically, probably DAILY.
They are Demoncrats, they get special double secret declassification.
Lol… it will go no where. The docs theyre finding all over the country from others mutilates their cases. The fact we havent seen leaks of exactly what these docs are , means they’re not sensitive. From some accounts he took letters from worlds leaders and mementoes. Not nuke codes and spy contact lists.
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