Trump Guilty Of Looking At His Own Classified Documents

[Independent thinker]

This is how loony the radical left and the weaponized DOJ have become. They are now claiming that Trump may have looked at his very own classified documents. I kid you not. Apparently it is a crime to look at your very own classified documents. Guess that means that Biden and Pence are both going to jail too because I'm sure at one point or another they also looked at their own classified documents, as well as every other president and vice president throughout history.

Justice Department Has New Evidence In Trump Classified Documents Probe: Report

Trump was indicted in Manhattan last week over a hush money scheme but still faces legal peril from multiple fronts.

www.yahoo.com

 

[occupied]

Trump was stripped of his security clearance Immediately upon leaving office. So yeah, it's a crime.

 

[hadit]

Trump was stripped of his security clearance Immediately upon leaving office. So yeah, it's a crime.

So is every president and vice president. That means there could be a whole lotta criminal charges, if justice is really what we're after.

 

[DGS49]

We will shortly be introduced to a new concept: "Implicit Declassification."

Here's how it works. A President who has unfettered power to declassify documents, and no obligation to confirm it in writing, implicitly declassifies a document if he chooses to take it away from the government office where it is normally maintained. As a result of Implicit Declassification, NONE of the documents found (or not found) at Mar-a-Lago remained "classified."

You read it here first.

 

[occupied]

So is every president and vice president. That means there could be a whole lotta criminal charges, if justice is really what we're after.

Not necessarily. Most ex-presidents make themselves available to the next administration for consultation on various ongoing matters and retain a security clearance as a matter of convenience. Trump however was not to trusted as his theft of government documents clearly illustrates.

 

[pyetro]

This is how loony the radical left and the weaponized DOJ have become. They are now claiming that Trump may have looked at his very own classified documents. I kid you not. Apparently it is a crime to look at your very own classified documents. Guess that means that Biden and Pence are both going to jail too because I'm sure at one point or another they also looked at their own classified documents, as well as every other president and vice president throughout history.

Justice Department Has New Evidence In Trump Classified Documents Probe: Report

Trump was indicted in Manhattan last week over a hush money scheme but still faces legal peril from multiple fronts.

www.yahoo.com

Obstruction has nothing to do with reading them. I have seen nothing about plans to charge him with simply reading the documents.

 

[hadit]

Not necessarily. Most ex-presidents make themselves available to the next administration for consultation on various ongoing matters and retain a security clearance as a matter of convenience. Trump however was not to trusted as his theft of government documents clearly illustrates.

They are stripped of clearance, and it is up to the incoming president to grant them clearance for the purpose of transitioning power. Therefore, if Obama took any classified documents with him when he left office and looked at them a year later, he would fall into this category. The point remains that, if we really wanted to prosecute this, we would have to go over every potential access of classified documents, such as Biden having them stored in his garage, freely available to anyone that happened to be in there and prosecute accordingly. Is that really the can of worms you want to open, or is this just another "Get TRUMP!" attempt that's supposed to only apply to him?

 

[johngaltshrugged]

Looked at his DE-classified docs.
As President, he had all the authority necessary to both declassify & keep them as public records from his administration under the Presidential Records Act & the SCOTUS precedent of Navy vs Egan

The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan — which addressed 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.”

Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to “classify and declassify at will.”

Department of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988)

Department of the Navy v. Egan

supreme.justia.com

He already unclassified them despite the lies from the proggies.

 

[The5thHorseman]

This is how loony the radical left and the weaponized DOJ have become. They are now claiming that Trump may have looked at his very own classified documents. I kid you not. Apparently it is a crime to look at your very own classified documents. Guess that means that Biden and Pence are both going to jail too because I'm sure at one point or another they also looked at their own classified documents, as well as every other president and vice president throughout history.

Justice Department Has New Evidence In Trump Classified Documents Probe: Report

Trump was indicted in Manhattan last week over a hush money scheme but still faces legal peril from multiple fronts.

www.yahoo.com

This is a bunch of ignorant, hysterical twaddle...

This isn't about "looking at them"...it's about obstructing the effort to retrieve documents under subpoena.

 

[The5thHorseman]

Looked at his DE-classified docs.
As President, he had all the authority necessary to both declassify & keep them as public records from his administration under the Presidential Records Act & the SCOTUS precedent of Navy vs Egan

The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan — which addressed 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.”

Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to “classify and declassify at will.”

Department of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988)

Department of the Navy v. Egan

supreme.justia.com

He already unclassified them despite the lies from the proggies.

That's bull.

 

[pyetro]

Looked at his DE-classified docs.
As President, he had all the authority necessary to both declassify & keep them as public records from his administration under the Presidential Records Act & the SCOTUS precedent of Navy vs Egan

The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan — which addressed 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.”

Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to “classify and declassify at will.”

Department of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988)

Department of the Navy v. Egan

supreme.justia.com

He already unclassified them despite the lies from the proggies.

Link?

 

[Blaster]

Our system of justice is broken.

 

[pyetro]

Looked at his DE-classified docs.
As President, he had all the authority necessary to both declassify & keep them as public records from his administration under the Presidential Records Act & the SCOTUS precedent of Navy vs Egan

The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan — which addressed 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.”

Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to “classify and declassify at will.”

Department of the Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988)

Department of the Navy v. Egan

supreme.justia.com

He already unclassified them despite the lies from the proggies.

Your quote doesn't say anything about keeping them. Why did you lie?

 

[pyetro]

Our system of justice is broken.

Your ability to know the law is broken.

 

[johngaltshrugged]

That's bull.

Tell it to SCOTUS.
Just because you don't like a fact doesn't mean it's not true.

Do you understand this concept or is the clot shot damage complete?

 

[Blaster]

Your ability to know the law is broken.

My brother is a lawyer and I have a better grasp of the law than you do.

 

[g5000]

This is how loony the radical left and the weaponized DOJ have become. They are now claiming that Trump may have looked at his very own classified documents. I kid you not. Apparently it is a crime to look at your very own classified documents. Guess that means that Biden and Pence are both going to jail too because I'm sure at one point or another they also looked at their own classified documents, as well as every other president and vice president throughout history.

Justice Department Has New Evidence In Trump Classified Documents Probe: Report

Trump was indicted in Manhattan last week over a hush money scheme but still faces legal peril from multiple fronts.

www.yahoo.com

You are an idiot.

Trump's crime is obstruction. He was asked by the National Archives to return any classified documents. Trump then went through the documents he had, and chose some that he wanted to keep, and then turned over the rest. He then lied and said he had returned everything he had.

He also enlisted his lawyer to lie and say he had returned all classified documents.

All caught up now, dumbass?

 

[The5thHorseman]

Tell it to SCOTUS.
Just because you don't like a fact doesn't mean it's not true.

Do you understand this concept or is the clot shot damage complete?

Trust me....

Your uninterrupted losing streak on legal matters remains unsullied.

 

[pyetro]

My brother is a lawyer and I have a better grasp of the law than you do.

You're lying. You don't have a lawyer brother.

 

[Blaster]

You're lying. You don't have a lawyer brother.

Prove it or STFU.