More classified documents found

He can't declassify with his mind alone. He has to show the paper trail they were declassified, and Trump has studiously avoided providing any evidence of a paper trail.
His lawyers were unable to give Judge Dearie any evidence they had been de-classified, so the jokers making the claim he de-classified them are full of baloney.
 
His lawyers were unable to give Judge Dearie any evidence they had been de-classified, so the jokers making the claim he de-classified them are full of baloney.

The standard operating assumption on this board is that Earl routinely lies his flabby ass off!
 
He can't declassify with his mind alone. He has to show the paper trail they were declassified, and Trump has studiously avoided providing any evidence of a paper trail.

He said he de-classified them.

I would tend to believe the former president ahead of some yo yo on JPP.
 
I think Clinton, Gore, Bush, Cheney and Obama are all checking their files :laugh:

I give Pence a lot of credit for being proactive about this. They were found because he asked someone to look. I still believe this is common, and I'll bet more will come to light. Both of these cases, and probably the others going forward are NOTHING like the Trump case.
 
I give Pence a lot of credit for being proactive about this. They were found because he asked someone to look. I still believe this is common, and I'll bet more will come to light. Both of these cases, and probably the others going forward are NOTHING like the Trump case.
To me, the biggest problem, besides Trump thinking the documents belong to him, lies with The National Archives. There should be a better system of tracking documents.
 
I give Pence a lot of credit for being proactive about this. They were found because he asked someone to look. I still believe this is common, and I'll bet more will come to light. Both of these cases, and probably the others going forward are NOTHING like the Trump case.
I agree, Trump had documents that were de-classified.

Biden had documents as a Senator that he could not de-classify.
 
At the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence.

Let the games begin!!!

Here is the bottom line. This almost certainly happens all the time. It is only news because Trump refused to return the ones he had in his possession, and actually hid them, forcing the FBI to raid his home. It's a nothing burger. But it isn't. What say you?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/politics/pence-classified-documents-fbi/index.html

I know and unlike Biden he lied about having them.
 
I think we're going to find more of this.
Which kinda dilutes Trump's guilt even though he wouldn't return them.

No, twump was a special case. Not only did twump refuse to return them, he lied about having them, then lied about returning them and when that didn't work he claimed the FBI planted them. And when that didn't work twump claimed "he declassified them by thinking about them".
 
No it doesn't. Not in the least. Having them is understandable. Hiding them is the crime because it demonstrates clear criminal intent. Neither Pence nor Biden made any attempt to hide the documents, at least it doesn't appear they did. Trump ignored a lawful subpoena. When Biden or Pence does that, get back to me.

Pence did lie about having them - something Biden never did.
 
Trump took what he wanted to take


Several of the WH staff at the time testified that they told him it was illegal for him to take certain things over and over
 
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