6 Jun 2023 7:14 pm
He can't claim that he declassified them as a private citizen. He NO LONGER HAS THAT AUTHORITYgolfboy » 06 Jun 2023, 7:00 pm » wrote: ↑ EO 13526 is meaningless. There is no law that defines a process for a President to declassify documents.
We went through this repeatedly with Trump, like when he told the Russians in the Oval "classified" information.
Liberals like you lost your minds, and then it was explained to you, when Trump told them the information, that declassified it.
Him sending documents to his house, declassified them.
Reread this part:
Moreover, Trump is claiming he declassified the documents he stole 'with his mind'. That might be credible, but he made that claim AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN.
Since, declassification by thought leaves no process of memorialization, there is no way to prove that he did, in fact, declassify documents. Because of that fact, the law will continue to recognize the documents a classified, since he can't make a retrospective claim as a private citizen who is no longer president.
Moreover, several staff, including John Bolton and Bill Barr will testify that he did NOT declassify anything in the documents he stole.
Additionally, there is a new tape in which he is holding a classified document, and telling the people he was talking to that he can't tell them what it contains because it is classified, and the tape was made while he was a private citizen, which proves he did not declassify that document. Well, if he claims he classified all the documents, why is he on tape telling folks he can't tell them what the document contains if he had declassified it? If what he said was true, he could have declassified it right then and there and then released the information. But, he didn't.
However, your implication is moot because Trump will likely be charged with a violation of the Espionage Act, which does not depend on any classification regime.
Capiche?