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For doing exactly as every other POTUS has done? GTFO.
"Trump not only had classified records at Mar-a-Lago, not only had TS/SCI classified records, he had Special Access Program classified information."
www.wsj.com
If you need a few minutes to clean yourself up we can wait.Nm
Trump held more than 300 classified documents after leaving White House: report
Former President Trump reportedly held on to more than 300 classified documents after leaving office, half of which were recovered in January by the National Archives, which alerted the Justice Dep…
Trump’s big filing last night in the case is being universally panned as one of the most legally incompetent documents many people have ever seen. It even seems that Trump may have written some of the filing himself.
Opinion | The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis
A former president’s rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Only 300 pages? I think Sandy Berger had more than that in his underwear when he was stealing them for the Clintons.Nm
Trump held more than 300 classified documents after leaving White House: report
Former President Trump reportedly held on to more than 300 classified documents after leaving office, half of which were recovered in January by the National Archives, which alerted the Justice Dep…
He had six copies of the same document that was related to the Clinton administration's performance in the lead in to 9/11. He pled to probation and lost his law license.
There is no evidence and no testimony that Hillary had any emails that were categorized in the highest few levels of classification. Trump apparently had multiple documents at the two highest levels of classification, he has now demonstrated that he knew he had the documents, and he refused multiple opportunities to return them as the law demands.
Seems Murdoch is spreading out his bets just to be safe.Opinion | The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis
A former president’s rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Trust them. There is probably a good reason the DOJ and FBI still feel the need to leak narratives to the NYT on an every-other-day basis. Total professionals.
That is incorrect. Even Comey acknowledged that in the bizarre press conference where he summarized the many laws she broke but said no reasonable prosecutor would pursue the case. Comey used the term “top secret” to describe the emails in question instead of being more precise with the term TS-SAP.
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I stand corrected, with the caveat that the answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no on the presence of classified documents, given the majority of the documents in Hillary's emails did not have the proper labeling required for all classified documents.
www.politifact.com
Fair enough. I don’t think anyone defends the Clintons at this point.
It shows that the urgency was nil, and that the docs are worthless. But dems will claim otherwiseThis letter explains it all and I would say that was an awful lot of asking nicely to the former Pres. It's ridiculous it's come down to this and resources are being used for a childish "but the docs are mine" when they aren't.
Full text of National Archives letter to Trump on classified documents
Just the News has obtained the full text of the letter that the National Archives sent to former President Donald Trump requesting classified documents
how can you say docs are worthless when you don't even know what they are?
Do you really feel Bill and Hillary weren’t vigorously investigated? I won’t bother to list all of the investigations again as I'm sure you know them as well as I do. Hillary spent over eleven hours testifying in front of congress under oath on just Benghazi and the emails. Whitewater lasted eight years in total and in the end they only got him on lying about the BJ. Overall, that’s a lot of investigation time.
This perfectly summarizes the hypocrisy of the entire argument defending Trump.
So will gets his legal opinions from a biased NYT reporter, got it.
Yes of course it is more nuanced, to those that want to protect the scum democrat criminals getting away with all kinds of illegal crap.I stand corrected, with the caveat that the answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no on the presence of classified documents, given the majority of the documents in Hillary's emails did not have the proper labeling required for all classified documents.
Don't look to me to defend the Clintons. Regardless, given the labeling issue (all of Trump's documents were very clearly labeled) and the fact that Trump significantly increased the teeth of the law related to the mishandling of government documents, the comparison between the two situations doesn't hold up very well.
PolitiFact - Hillary Clinton says none of her emails had classification headers
During an NBC forum that focused on the presidential candidates’ national security chops, host Matt Lauer asked Democrat
What I say is if Trump is found guilty of something bad enough to merit the double standard of the fbi/doj I will apologize. I'm willing to bet you will claim from now till judgment day Trump is guilty of something nefarious (russia, russia, russia) even if it is proven this was nothing but a political attack by the dim party, just like russia russia russia. LOL you fellas are special.
How can you say they are worth what the fbi did when you dont know what they are?
Of course they were investigated, but I might quibble with whether it was done “vigorously.”
that is not proven.
because the IG of the Department of State found carelessness (consistent with previous practices) but no wrongdoing.
The situation is more nuanced for the reasons I listed, but I understand that in your world this is literally the fight between good and evil. No doubt this limits any potential dialogue on the topic.
@wildup - what is your take on all the leaks to the NYT’s. Is Garland and company under so much pressure to justify the raid and/or was the latest info collected not as damming as expected so they are in damage control.
It was incorrectly filed, it apparently contains references to caselaw that doesn't exist, etc. etc. I agree on Eichenwald, but it is not just him, it is many lawyers reviewing the "complaint."
Fee free to share anyone you have praising the mastery of Trump’s filing last night, or make the argument yourself. Guessing you would rather focus on the source than on the filing.
What are we assuming the FBI or DOJ has leaked at this point? Trump publicized the raid itself, he publicized the warrant (with the agents names unredacted, obviously) and Trump ally John Solomon made the highly questionable decision to publicize the letter the archives sent to Trump on May 10th, which dismantles a number of the lines of defense trump and his supporters have offered up so far.
