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Trump: I could declassify documents by thinking about it

Biden can freely give any sensitive information he wants to Hunter because he is free to declassify anything merely by thinking it.

Do I have this right?
Yes.

However, that doesn't mean there won't be consequences.
 
no the only motive that matters is malicious intent to harm the USA or advantage other nations. not happening
PRA records are used for lots of stuff,.libraries and personal papers ...it's a PRA dispute not Espionage as as fas as I can understand it
 
And with no documentary evidence of declassification, which must be attached to the materials in question, they can only be assumed to remain classified.
 
So, then, who is it that is above the President, in the executive branch, that tells him he has to write it down or something?
Are you serious? In any declassification procedure there are strict protocols to be observed. This involves an official paper trail, and not mere telepathy.
 
no the only motive that matters is malicious intent to harm the USA or advantage other nations. not happening
PRA records are used for lots of stuff,.libraries and personal papers ...it's a PRA dispute not Espionage as as fas as I can understand it
This is what Trump should have done, by law, but failed to do. Scroll to 'Declassification and Downgrading. All will be revealed.
 
Common sense is not the legal standard. There is no written requirement for what a potus must go through to declassify something. It becomes a matter of his word. If he said he did it then he did because there is no way to prove otherwise.

How does one determine if some piece of information is national defense information relative to the espionage act? What does national defense information look like?

Who determines if a piece of information meets this criteria?
 
no the only motive that matters is malicious intent to harm the USA or advantage other nations. not happening
PRA records are used for lots of stuff,.libraries and personal papers ...it's a PRA dispute not Espionage as as fas as I can understand it

Horsehair.. the same stupid intent argument that is clearly WRONG. Malicious intent to harm the US is NOT required to be convicted of 18 USC 793(e). No matter how many times you trot out this bullshit, it will never be true.
 
How does one determine if some piece of information is national defense information relative to the espionage act? What does national defense information look like?

Who determines if a piece of information meets this criteria?
I give up. How?
 
I give up. How?

If a JURY is convinced the government closely holds the information and keeps it hidden from the public AND it is related to national defense then one can be convicted of 18 USC 793(e).

A JURY makes that finding of fact, nobody else.
 

No he doesnt. Once he's no longer POTUS he has no such license. And he's going to have to prove he did so while he was POTUS...unfortunately for him, even implied by his own words, there's no such proof since he "thought about declassifying them."
 
If a JURY is convinced the government closely holds the information and keeps it hidden from the public AND it is related to national defense then one can be convicted of 18 USC 793(e).

A JURY makes that finding of fact, nobody else.
A jury would need to find that the potus does not have the authority to change the classification of information at will.
 
A jury would need to find that the potus does not have the authority to change the classification of information at will.
Nope.. the would merely need to find that government continued to closely hold the information. Nothing more… the classification can be inform the jury, but they can determine the information is NDI based on the actions of the government. This would be a find if fact by the jury.
 

Minor technical correction:




IIRC Yul Brenner said "So let it be written, so let it be done."




Jean-Luc Picard said "Make it so".

WW
 
Then Trump's lawyers should go ahead officially make that claim in court before the special magistrate and see what happens then when the special magistrate demands proof supporting that claim from them. It isn't going to be pretty.
The court already did that.

Why an appeals court says Trump's claims he declassified the Mar-a-Lago documents are a 'red herring'​

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/politics/trump-declassification-11th-circuit-opinion/index.html
Key to the dispute before the appeals court was whether the materials were possessions of Trump's that had a level of personal significance that would justify keeping them out of the Justice Department's hands.

The arguments Trump was making about why those materials should be withheld from investigators were so far-fetched, that few court observers were surprised that his claims ran into a buzzsaw at the appeals court
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Another hate thread with TDS and projection.

Why?

The OP doesn’t even make any sense.
 
Another hate thread with TDS and projection.

Why?

The OP doesn’t even make any sense.

I agree 100%

The idea that the FPOTUS has put out there that he can secretly and mentally declassify information without telling anyone in any form,

It doesn't make sense.

WW
 
I agree 100%

The idea that the FPOTUS has put out there that he can secretly and mentally declassify information without telling anyone in any form,

It doesn't make sense.

WW

Wait the dumbasses learn about Dongfan Chung and how national defense information includes unclassified information from non-governmental entities.

 
Another hate thread with TDS and projection.

Why?

The OP doesn’t even make any sense.

I agree 100%

The idea that the FPOTUS has put out there that he can secretly and mentally declassify information without telling anyone in any form,

It doesn't make sense.

WW

Wait the dumbasses learn about Dongfan Chung and how national defense information include unclassified information from non-governmental entities.


Hate and projection coupled with TDS.

Thanks for proving my point.
 
Hate and projection coupled with TDS.

Thanks for proving my point.

Hate? Nawww.. just exposing what a piece shit Trump is and level of ignorance of many of his supporters..
 
Do you believe in telepathic declassification?

Yes.

Telepathic powers are right in the Constitution.

(Of course you need telepathic powers to read it in the original, the text does not appear to normal people.)

WW
 
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