John Bolton, who served as former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser for 17 months, is joining others in the national security community who are pushing back against Trump’s insistence that the classified material he unlawfully took to his Mar-a-Lago resort had been declassified.
Damn, I hate agreeing with John Bolton or finding him credible at all.
But, such are the times, I guess.
A lot of declassified McDonalds cheeseburgers in the White House. Wonder how many wrappers the FBI recovered with TS/SCI written on them.
Schmidt
Krystol
Sykes
Frum
Wilson
Will
Scarborough
Steele
Boot
list goes on…
As with most of these issues, people who worked for Trump will be split into two factions on this story: Those who are willing to tell the truth and those willing to tell any lie, no matter how ridiculous, to protect Trump.
To Trump supporters these would be the loyalists vs. the RINOs.
Every time trump spews a lie, dems spend all their energy trying to prove and properly document he shat out yet another lie.
Let’s see proof of truth.
Not some sniveling lackey spewing their own lies to try to prop up his.
Trump’s spokesperson: 'He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them"
Nixon: “Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
is “almost certainly a lie,”
That statement should be on Trump’s business card.
Truth has been popping up in the strangest places recently. Kind of like after a sustained rain on an arid landscape. Out of nowhere suddenly green spouts begin to appear.
But people didn’t know, therefore it wasn’t memorialized because it was never said in the first place.
Bolton also said that he hadn’t heard anything about Trump establishing the “order” after the national security official left the White House on less-than-friendly terms with Trump in Sept. 2019 either.
When you spend all your time in office pissing on people, it might have long term consequences.
Who’dda thunk it?
Either Trump took this order with him to Mar-a-Loco, in which case he didn’t return it and can produce it for all to see (although that would constitute an admission that he hadn’t given everything back), or it’s still in the government’s possession, if it existed at all. So let’s ask both Trump and the National Archives to make it public and await the next bogus rationale when neither can produce it.
Love him or hate him, John Bolton knows a few things.
That’s one bad hat, Harry.
How much he ate was clearly a national secret.
It’s not in the country’s interest to have questions about Dr. Jackson’s credibility floating about.
The ex-official also pointed out that because secure facilities had been built at Mar-a-Lago during Trump’s presidency, the documents wouldn’t have needed to be declassified anyway.
At nontrivial expense to us (a group that doesn’t include TFG) taxpayers, of course. And we’re not talking about just a little secure closet for viewing Secret Squirrel stuff.This is (or was) the SCIF at Mar-a-Klepto:
"Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure." – Mark Twain
OK…it’s time. You don’t declassify a document. You reclassify it. Classified documents have cover sheet on them. That sheet states the classification level, the permissions for review, copy restrictions and the secure location in which the document must reside. The fact that you have a secret clearance does NOT allow you to willy nilly poke about secret docs. You must have a “need to know” and be in the permitted group to review.
The president can order a declassification or change in classification of a doc up or down. He can also change the other parameters on the cover sheet. But he does not do so unilaterally. The documents final reclassification is done by the custodians of the document in compliance with the presidents order. After reclassification a new cover sheet is attached.
If Trump just grabbed a box of docs and hauled ass with it the docs inside had their original classifications attached and had not been through a formal declassification review. They still had their original classification.
If any of these looted doc are NRAS or other Nuclear Assurity docs they are definitely still in original class as NO ONE can down grade such a document nor can they be in possession of it unless they’re in the NRAS. A nuclear related doc outside of a highly secure SCIF is a national security hazard. Even when Trump does it.
“Trump’s been throwing around everything but the kitchen sink in his denials of any wrongdoing…”
Ah-hah!! I’ll bet the FBI folks didn’t look under the kitchen sink. That’s where the good stuff was. Always one step ahead our Donnie.
