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It is when you are POTUS. Anyone else is delegated the task of declassifying documents and therefore has to follow a procedure but POTUS does not as he is the ultimate authority when it comes to declassification.
Provide a link where Trump has publicly stated--while he was in office--that those materials were officially de-classified. If you can't then it never happened.
It is when you are POTUS. Anyone else is delegated the task of declassifying documents and therefore has to follow a procedure but POTUS does not as he is the ultimate authority when it comes to declassification.
Shall we follow that logic to its conclusion? The stance seems to be that the documents are now declassified by a process that appears to be "Former Guy decided that they should be so when he had the authority, but didn't tell anyone". If we run with that, the docs are now declassified. Does that mean that the public can get access by filing an FOIA request?
Also, a sitting President may have the authority to declassify military secrets. But there is such a thing as classification by statute, and certain docs - in a particular, those having to do with nuclear technology - fall under that. Bodies appointed by the legislature oversee that process.
Of course, the statutes cited in the warrant has nothing to do with classification levels.
Provide a link where Trump has publicly stated--while he was in office--that those materials were officially de-classified. If you can't then it never happened.
These Trump supporters have yet to explain why does he have classified documents at his personal residence and why were they not turned over when the government requested them. I will wait for an explanation.
Because the FBI had them. And was put there during their secret search. And of course, we can't have council following us around
It is when you are POTUS. Anyone else is delegated the task of declassifying documents and therefore has to follow a procedure but POTUS does not as he is the ultimate authority when it comes to declassification.
While POTUS has full authority to declassify, the documents still need to be declassified to be handled as such... meaning they need to be remarked.... which according to the FBI, they weren't.
Bragging rights. Trump has a long history of collecting memorabilia to show off to people he wants to impress.
We can only hope it was only to shore up that enormous ego of his. But there are more nefarious things he very well could have done with these documents, and might have already.
The FBI can't plant what they don't have access to.
How do you really know for sure?
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