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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    Cite the part of the constitution you are relying on
    I'm not relying on anything.

    Read what it has to say about the president.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Capitalist View Post
    Here's Trump's latest bullshit. He can 'declassify' documents by just thinking about them. Do you believe him?



    Trump’s claim of declassifying documents ‘by thinking about it’ is mocked by legal experts

    Former President Trump says he could declassify documents just “by thinking about it” — an outlandish claim that drew howls of outrage from legal experts.

    Speaking to Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Trump asserted there is no need for the president to formally declassify documents or even notify anyone that he has done so.

    “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified,’ even by thinking about it,” Trump said.


    “There can be a process, but there doesn’t have to be,” he added. “You’re the president. You make that decision.”

    Trump is scrambling to find a legally viable defense to the investigation into mishandling top secret documents that led to the Aug. 8 search of his Mar-a-Lago Florida resort.

    He apparently believes one defense could be that the documents were no longer classified because he says so.

    But experts vigorously dispute that, noting that he has never provided any evidence that he declassified them before leaving the White House.

    “I tried not to burst out laughing,” said Bradley P. Moss, a national security lawyer.

    A three-judge federal appeals court panel, including two Trump-appointed justices, trashed Trump’s claim Wednesday night, saying documents that are marked as classified are considered classified unless there is evidence they have been declassified.
    No, but surely a good deal of the MAGA militia believe it because Trump said it was so

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    I understand that America is now run by communists (WOKE), but America is supposed to be a nation of law, and as such it does not matter what I think, it matters what the law says.

    If the law is not clear then we failed.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    I understand that America is now run by communists (WOKE), but America is supposed to be a nation of law, and as such it does not matter what I think, it matters what the law says.

    If the law is not clear then we failed.
    Trump has been rejected by the law, time after time. Its not looking good. Who are the communists?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    I understand that America is now run by communists (WOKE), but America is supposed to be a nation of law, and as such it does not matter what I think, it matters what the law says.

    If the law is not clear then we failed.
    So now are "communists" and "wokeist" the revolution? Are they in cahoots with the "deep state" and the "those people?"

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    The scare quotes in the tittle are inappropriate, not that this should be a shock given the author.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    "There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it," Trump told Hannity. "You know, there's different people say different things, but as I understand, there doesn't have to be — if you're the President of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it."




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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Capitalist View Post
    Here's Trump's latest bullshit. He can 'declassify' documents by just thinking about them. Do you believe him?
    By the simple act of handing you a top secret document the President has declassified it. He is the ultimate arbiter of classification. There is no formal process and there are no written procedures. Just by him making a document public, it is considered declassified.

    If you didn't get all your misinformation from the main stream PHONY media, you would know this.

    So what we have here is broad overreach and over charging in a case of a document dispute. No one knew these documents were at Maralago until the DOJ turned it into a national issue. That was stupid and will be another embarrassment for this failed, clown show Presidency.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I’m pretty sure even the Supreme Court is laughing at the notion that Presidents can declassify documents in their minds.
    I'm pretty sure they are not. But we do laugh at you a lot for your complete and utter lack of knowing much of anything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    It’s also not a matter of what trump thinks
    That’s the very point
    It's a matter of evidence and proof, of which Eric Garland has little of.
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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    How can he just think it and all the people who have to physically reclassify them know they need to change the record?
    It’s utter insanity to even entertain that stupidity
    Your posts are utter insanity and incredibly stupid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Poor Richard Saunders View Post
    Oh. C'mon... I can declassify documents just be thinking I am President and then by thinking that I am declassifying documents while I am thinking about being President. It's perfect. No one has ever thought better.
    Absurdity; the last desperate refuge for the ignorant, the dishonest and the stupid. Yay you!
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    Nope.

    And if he can - the framers of the Constitution sure whiffed on a biggie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    There is a documented process,
    Link to that process dipshit. There isn't any. You're beyond mere stupid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Capitalist View Post
    There is ABSOLUTELY a process that EVERYONE in the gov't has to follow.
    Link to this moronic and lie filled claim.
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