Meet the Press question destroys the FAKE narrative Trump committed a criminal act

archives said:
If he did it why isn’t there any record of it, at this point, all we have is Trump saying he did it, he supposedly declassified three hundred documents, where and when nobody knows, we only have Trump’s word on that, and we all know Trump is about as truthful as Pinocchio
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There is no process for Presidents declassifying you dumbass. That's the point of this thread. If a President makes something public, it's declassified. They are the ultimate deciders and there is no formal process, you simple minded caricature of ignorance and stupidity. :palm:
 
For the past four decades, every presidential document — from notebook doodles to top-secret security plans — is supposed to go directly to the National Archives as the material is considered the property of the American people.

So when former President Donald Trump left office on Jan. 20, 2021, all his records should have traveled from the White House to the National Archives, according to Jason R. Baron, who served as director of litigation at the National Archives for 13 years.

No president has the right to retain presidential records after he or she leaves office," Baron said. "And so it is an extraordinary circumstance if presidential records are found in a former president's residence or anywhere else under his control."

In 1978, Congress passed the more sweeping Presidential Records Act that has been the standard ever since.

"Every president, when they leave office, those records that have been created by the president and his staff are presidential records that go to the National Archives," Baron said. "The owner is the American people."

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/13/1117297065/trump-documents-history-national-archives-law-watergate
 
Truth Detector said:
POOF, there goes another lie filled DNC narrative on Meet the Press. Much like the Mueller Hoax, the Ukraine impeachment Hoax, the January coup Hoax and the January 6th inquisition Hoax. After a while, even the most stupid mental case would tire of being wrong constantly and lying about everything.

MAJOR GARRETT:

You mentioned your experience with the Bush and Obama White Houses. There's a procedure inside the building, obviously, for classified and secured documents. Is there a similar process off site, for any president? Meaning at a place like Mar-a-Lago or for President Biden right now when he goes back to Delaware?

MORELL:

So there are -- there are things called SCIFs, sensitive compartmented information locations, that are actually approved for holding classified information. I had one in my attic when I was the deputy director. And you're allowed to hold classified there but these are places that are approved by security officers, right?

MAJOR GARRETT:

And if they're not, then they don't follow procedures and they may not follow federal law?

MORELL:

Correct. And you-and you may be at risk in those cases of mishandling classified information.

MAJOR GARRETT:

And Mike, this is a question that circles around this relentlessly. Is there a formalized process for a president to declassify classified information?

MORELL:

Unfortunately not. There are statutes that allow the president to declassify information. The Supreme Court has upheld those statutes a number of times. But those statutes do not outline a step-by-step process for the president to do so. So it's murky. I actually know a case from the Bush White House where President Bush declassified part of the 2002 Iraq WMD national intelligence estimate so Scooter Libby could use that information at his grand jury testimony. And President Bush did that without ever telling the intelligence community. So presidents can do this, right? But there's an appropriate way to do it and the appropriate way to do it is to paper it over, right? To have the president sign a document that says I hereby declassify this information.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...hael-morell-165043102.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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DId you know that obstruction of justice does not require any documents to be classified?
 
Earl said:
He was when he de-classified it.
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You have some evidence of that? And some of these documents are very serious, would you be okay with them being declassified and held in an unsecure area?
 
LurchAddams said:
Why don't you just post the section of "The Constitution" to us that tells us former presidents with revoked security clearances can declassify documents.

You have no idea what's in "The Constitution" idiot. You're not fooling anyone, troll.
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When was Trumps security clearance revoked? You can't revoke a former President any more than you can claim he act treasonous and sell the information.

You fucking dumbass, we stated that he declassified documents before leaving office. If he hands you a top secret document, it is no longer top secret just by that act. :palm:
 
floridafan said:
No proof that anything was ever declassified.
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No proof that it wasn't either.

"The president’s classification and declassification powers are broad.

The president, as commander in chief, is ultimately responsible for classification and declassification. When people lower in the chain of command handle classification and declassification duties — which is usually how it’s done — it’s because they have been delegated to do so by the president directly, or by an appointee chosen by the president.

The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy v. Egan — which involved the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance — addresses this line of authority.

"The president, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the president, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."
 
Presidential historian: Way Trump obtained, kept classified material is unprecedented

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss on Sunday said former President Trump’s handling of classified documents after he left office did not align with the actions taken by his predecessors.

“We have never in history seen a former president take ultra-classified documents, stick them in his basement, loosely watched by government standards, and with the shadow of we still don’t know what his motive was,” Beschloss said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The FBI executed a search warrant of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Monday in connection with the agency’s investigation into his handling of classified documents and whether he violated the Espionage Act.

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday...ed-kept-classified-material-is-unprecedented/
 
floridafan said:
I guess you haven't read the FBI reports and findings. maybe too distracted with your head up your ass.
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The FBI has been involved in covering for the Bidens. It has been proven and whistle blowers are coming forward to testify. It's fascinating that the same leftists that used to distrust the DOJ, now wish to defend and coddle it.

This is another massive overreaction as a result of the Swamps TDS. You don't send in 30 FBI agents over a document dispute. One in which the FBI already checked the location and made security recommendations.

But hey, when the Democrats can see the massive red tsunami coming in November, they will destroy the nation in order to remain in power. :palm:
 
Jarod said:
You have some evidence of that? And some of these documents are very serious, would you be okay with them being declassified and held in an unsecure area?
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You have some evidence that he wasn't president when he declassified them?

Once declassified, they are no longer classified .

They were locked in a basement with Secret Service protection 24/7.

Once declassified, they no longer even needed protection.
 
Earl said:
No proof that it wasn't either.

"The president’s classification and declassification powers are broad.

The president, as commander in chief, is ultimately responsible for classification and declassification. When people lower in the chain of command handle classification and declassification duties — which is usually how it’s done — it’s because they have been delegated to do so by the president directly, or by an appointee chosen by the president.

The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy v. Egan — which involved the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance — addresses this line of authority.

"The president, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the president, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."
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If he declassified, there would be records- there are none
Furthermore, he cannot by himself declassified secret or top secret files, as those that he stole from the WH.
 
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