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You are clearly reaching.
June 14, 2023 at 15:18
It says on your page: WHAT IS THE AUTHORITY FOR AUTOMATIC DECLASSIFICATION? Executive Order 13526, “Classified National Security Information”.
June 14, 2023 at 15:11
The documents in question were not automatically declassified.
June 14, 2023 at 15:00
I do agree with Trump. You’ll remember that he was the commander in chief of the armed forces. He is the only one above those rules. He can declassify...
June 14, 2023 at 14:41
Your lengthy post is suspiciously missing one key fact, that Trump was president and has unilateral powers of declassification that neither Hillary no...
June 13, 2023 at 18:11
Now we have an untouchable bureaucracy we have no ability to influence. I much rather an elected politician than an unelected administrative state, pe...
June 13, 2023 at 17:55
If the president cannot do whatever he wants with documents he is given from agencies over which he is the executive, then the constitution of the Uni...
June 13, 2023 at 17:34
It has everything to do with whether those are his personal records or not.
June 13, 2023 at 16:45
The point that the archivist cannot determine what are presidential or personal records has been made. These decisions are made by the executive durin...
June 13, 2023 at 16:44
Neither Archivist nor congress can determine what are or are not presidential records. From the precedent I linked to earlier:
June 13, 2023 at 16:35
But during his presidency, Trump was authorized to posses, declassify, and determine as personal records those documents.
June 13, 2023 at 15:33
A state bureaucrat through and through, concerned with state secrets before the country at large. One of the documents Trump is accused of showing was...
June 13, 2023 at 15:25
Not during any time when he was not president.
June 13, 2023 at 01:49
I’m fairly certain the argument for the defense will be that he has the right to keep them for the same reason he had the right to take them. He was t...
June 13, 2023 at 01:48
Do you really think Trump walked into the white house and took documents?
June 13, 2023 at 00:51
I’m fairly certain that the president’s authority can override whoever marks documents as classified, unless executive authority is invested in the De...
June 12, 2023 at 22:54
Thanks for the low down, but I was citing Judicial Watch vs. NARA, which observes other cases besides Armstrong.
June 12, 2023 at 22:50
It’s not irrelevant if those are his personal records. He can dispose of them as he pleases, according to the constitution and precedent.
June 12, 2023 at 20:07
But he decides what are presidential or personal records. So it is the case.
June 12, 2023 at 19:59
“The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Trump could roll a blunt with those documents for all I care. Ne...
June 12, 2023 at 19:54
I don’t think he broke the law nor do I care if he did. But I’m certain they will do everything in their power to get him.
June 11, 2023 at 23:57
The thing about the hypocrisy is that it goes both ways. Trump was president. Clinton wasn’t. Trump had unilateral declassification power. Hillary did...
June 11, 2023 at 23:55
I asked what you thought his most egregious crime was, then you listed off all of them. You couldn’t answer the question. You just parroted the indict...
June 11, 2023 at 17:52
Appealing to law is a fallacy for a reason, and following the law is no sign of morality. Nazis followed the law as they rounded up Jews. Dr. MLK was ...
June 11, 2023 at 17:41
All those laws are designed to protect state power and prestige, not to protect citizens and their human rights. There is nothing morally wrong with w...
June 11, 2023 at 17:03
What do you think is Trump’s egregious crime? One that could net him 100 years in prison?
June 11, 2023 at 15:43
Ridicule me all you want. Call me any name. Pretend I’m a bot. Use emojis if it helps. I believe you guys need it for catharsis and I genuinely care a...
June 11, 2023 at 14:59
4 years of trying to nullify Trump’s presidency with lies and conspiracy theories that reached the highest echelons of the intelligence community and ...
June 11, 2023 at 04:49
The president can take documents to Mar-a-lago, as he did throughout his entire presidency. He did it openly, as is his right as president. Obstructin...
June 11, 2023 at 03:05
Sorry, which part wasn’t true?
June 11, 2023 at 02:55
Clinton destroyed evidence with hammers. Biden kept classified docs in his garage. Neither of them had the unilateral declassification powers that a p...
June 11, 2023 at 02:39
Old news that you believed and helped spread, despite its falsity. The irony.
June 11, 2023 at 02:23
Give this report a read, friend. But I know you won’t. https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf
June 11, 2023 at 02:17
I don’t know if it’s true. What I do know is that the media, the intel community, ran with any allegation against Trump for years, won Pulitzer Prizes...
June 11, 2023 at 01:58
Biden’s son loses a gun near a school, buys crack, scores prostitutes, and now an informant brings evidence of bribery against dad, but no, Trump said...
June 11, 2023 at 01:02
The laptop was not the subject of the first investigation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html …and ...
June 10, 2023 at 20:09
I’m as materialist as they come but I don’t believe in determinism.
June 10, 2023 at 17:29
I’ll pass. I’m just giving you some info. It looks like you’re misinformed.
June 10, 2023 at 17:27
New? It’s been going on since 2018, despite what you say. https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/08/white-house-prepares-for-possible-charges-ag...
June 10, 2023 at 17:23
It is a pity they were duped by misinfo, all of which was coordinated by the Biden campaign. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/biden-campa...
June 10, 2023 at 17:16
Hunter is still under investigation, despite what creativesoul says. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/hunter-biden-investigation-being-mishan...
June 10, 2023 at 17:05
Here’s mark Zuckerberg regretting it, blaming the FBI, despite creativesoul’s claims. https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/zuckerberg-blames-fbi-for-censorin...
June 10, 2023 at 17:01
This is the specific article that was suppressed before the election. https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainia...
June 10, 2023 at 16:57
I thought I was a Russian bot. I see we’ve expanded the goalposts a bit.
June 10, 2023 at 16:41
I think you’re right. The fallacy of appealing to law, and positive law in general, makes it clear to me that some believe law is determinative of beh...
June 10, 2023 at 16:39
It is nefarious. Recall that true information was suppressed in the lead up to the election.
June 10, 2023 at 16:27
I did, yes.
June 10, 2023 at 16:27
Not only that but many of Trump’s legal losses are not the result of him committing crimes, but the result of anti-Trump lawmakers creating and alteri...
June 10, 2023 at 16:16
That’s the one. https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
June 10, 2023 at 15:55
They were threatened by rioting activist groups, who for all of 2020 burned a lot of their property to the ground, for some reason.
June 10, 2023 at 15:51