There is one core problem with all of these claims: this is the elected president of the United States. He determines if a document is classified or not. He determines if a document is secret or not. He determines whether it's a government document or not. Congress can't do that. The Justice Department can't do that. The Intelligence Community can't do that. This is an indictment saying that Donald Trump used his own documents, kept his own documents, liked his own documents, and didn't want to give his own documents back. That's his Constitutional right. So the problem with this case is that the entire case is bogus, and instead this is an attempt by the Deep state to overturn our Constitutional democracy to say that they can tell the world when their secrets get to be disclosed. That's what this case is premised on: Donald Trump rebutting the lies of General Millie who lied to Bob Woodward, who claimed that he had stopped Trump from waging war in Iran, when it was actually Trump who stopped Milley [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] from waging war in Iran. Now here Milley is, by the admission of the indictmeneyt, leaking actual information that he was not entitled to disclose, that he was not entitled to declassify, that he was not entitled to declare a personal record that is subject to National Security information laws, because he is a lesser official subject to those laws and yet there has been no indictment, not even an investigation of Milley, and he is still in legal office today with the Republicans in Congress doing jack about it. By contrast the president who is vested by the second article of the United States Constitution with all executive power that means the president decides any information that comes in is classified for his benefit and for his alone. It is only Secret for his benefit and his alone it is only National Security information for his benefit and his alone. He can unilaterally declare it anything declassified, not National Security, or a personal record anytime he wants. The mere act of taking the documents with him . . . now let's remember he's not taking original source documents. All of those exist because it has been pointed out they're digitally stored. This is only about the President having rights to his documents. As a matter of Constitutional law, these are all his documents. The presidential records Act merely reflects that.
7:30. Imagine if Congress passed a law tomorrow, saying that, "we hereby declare that if the president executes any of his 2nd Article duties, that it is here by a crime and he goes to prison." That would be patently unconstitutional. They have no authority to limit the Executive branch under Article 2. They are given zero Executive enforcement powers. The unelected bureaucracy is given zero Constitutional powers. They only have any powers at all because the President gave it to them. So consequently, the entire charge is nonsense. All the alleged crimes are gibberish. They are a direct attack on Constitutional government in America. It is an attempt to say, We, the Deep State, get to tell you what is and isn't a secret. We, the Deep State, get to tell you what is and isn't classified. We, the Deep State, get to tell you what is and isn't National Security information, and even your elected president can't tell you our secrets or he goes to prison. that is how dangerous this criminal prosecution is this goes way past Trump this is the Deep State's war on democracy such that as such that as if this crime is upheld we don't have a constitutional democracy anymore we have a deep state run government that has killed the constitution in America.
Some will say that Trump knows that there is a declassification process, and for those who are listening I'm putting it in quotes, there is actually no procedural, lawful legally set out method or procedure for declassification, is that correct?
9:43. All of the declassification laws, all of National Security information laws, all the Presidential Records Act laws clarify is that all these laws are about everybody EXCEPT the president because constitutionally they cannot limit the president. Imagine having your own company and you are the sole owner of your company and you set some rules for your employees and then you don't live by those rules so what?
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