At this point how would anyone know? The photo today shows a bunch of cover sheets and redacted documents.It's not mentioned in the Trump team's 8/31 court filing. Perhaps because he never declassified anything? Perhaps because there are some documents that a President can't declassify?
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NO. Just, NO.
And "everyone beneath that office" is obligated to treat a given document as of it's last known status. Ergo, the document is still classified until Trump informs someone "beneath that office" otherwise. "Everyone beneath that office" is trained on how to identify and handle documents based on their last known status. If it were otherwise, "everyone beneath that office" would have to personally check with the president every time they came into contact with a document, classified or not.
This thread isn't about the photo. It's about the Trump team's response to the DOJ's filing about the special master request. It was filed this evening. it doesn't mention that Trump declassified any of the documents found out MAL.
It's not mentioned in the Trump team's 8/31 court filing. Perhaps because he never declassified anything? Perhaps because there are some documents that a President can't declassify?
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Of course, Trump did not declassify the government owned documents/materials seized from Mar-a-Lago.It's not mentioned in the Trump team's 8/31 court filing. Perhaps because he never declassified anything? Perhaps because there are some documents that a President can't declassify?
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It is. The special codes were shown to indicate status of the classifications of the documents. Nuclear. Sources. Methods. Intel. Informants.
The Espionage Act is literally federal law with plenty of case law to back it up.
Yeah...go ahead and stop there.
I started the thread. It's not about the photo. It's about how Trump's own lawyers ignored the claims about declassification in today's response to the DOJ filing about the special master.
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Of course. but the photo states the crimes, @JMB802
Which is exactly why Trump belongs nowhere near the oval office. The constitution was written with the expectation that men of character would hold the office. You know, those who would protect and defend the constitution not the guy who will ignore it or misconstrue it just to achieve his agenda.
Yes...personal character is important.
I don't care if the President is personally an a**hole as long as he doesn't look for ways to skirt the law just so he can claim a win.
You literally think Trump can just wiggle his nose and documents are declassified. He's not obligated to tell anyone, not obligated to have the markings changed, not obligated to have any record of such a thing being done. You believe that the law says if Trump says so, we are obligated to believe him.
I think that if he wants prove his case he would have to have told other people, and I don't think he did what he claimed. I never said he actually did it. People have a difficult ****ing time reading. The only thing I have ever stated, and it's a fact, is that the President has the ability to do so.
Funny how the agencies that classified the material in the first place have no knowledge of any declassification.It's not mentioned in the Trump team's 8/31 court filing. Perhaps because he never declassified anything? Perhaps because there are some documents that a President can't declassify?
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Give him time. And his cultists will support him. 5th Ave Syndrome.
