LordBrownTrout
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[You like Trump when he was a President. Did you pay attention to all the bills he signed? Maybe not, who does? But this is what happened in 2018.]
Oddly enough, one of the multiple laws covering the mishandling of government information is one that Trump himself amended during his tenure in the Oval Office, as pointed out by Tennessee state Sen. Jeff Yarbro (D) on Twitter.
Tucked into a bill Trump signed into law in January 2018 was a provision increasing the punishment for knowingly removing classified materials with the intent to retain them at an “unauthorized location.”
Previously, someone found guilty of this crime could face up to one year in prison. When former CIA Director David Petraeus was charged in 2015 with mishandling classified data, he pleaded guilty under this statute to avoid a felony charge, as Politico pointed out. A similar situation unfolded a decade earlier, when former national security adviser Samuel Berger pleaded guilty to removing terrorism-related materials from the National Archives in 2005.
Now, a person convicted of violating this law can face up to five years in prison ― making it a felony-level offense to mishandle classified documents under 18 U.S.C. 1924.
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Trump Made It A Felony To Mishandle Classified Documents In 2018
The FBI search of the former president's Florida property was focused on mishandled presidential materials, according to reports.sports.yahoo.com
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This all left wing rage. Nothing else. Nada. Zero. That dog ain't huntin. They lied about fake dossiers, impeachments. Naw dude.