25 Sep 2022 8:09 am
Right, his superpower. He declassified by telling himself the documents are declassified, then classifying his declassification by keeping it a secret. Only in Trumpworld is this not daffy.GHETTOBLASTER » 24 Sep 2022, 8:57 pm » wrote: ↑ "The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan 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 exist
Anyway, his having this superpower as president is not in question. Rather, it is the question Trumpers like to banter around while no one else pays it attention and focuses instead on the real question, to wit: his being out of office since January 20, 2021 but still having the documents, in his basement, about 1,000 of them and when asked to return the documents lied that he has them. And some of the documents were not only classified but have been identified by the Defense Department as containing the nation's most sensitive national security secrets. Now the man wants us to believe the danger of exposing these secrets by keeping them in an unsecured location has been erased because he declassified them.
I get it that Trump's supporters are dumbbells where he's concerned and accept as good and true whatever he tells them is good and true, but this seems it should strain even that level of devotion. At any rate, so far he's explained his magic only in his cocoon at Fox News. He hasn't dared say it in court. Now he has to
if he's going to keep it up.