Some White House documents that former President Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, instead of handing them over to the National Archives, were reportedly clearly marked as classified, according to the Washington Post.
I am sure glad that there has been such a sustained and vehement outpouring of outrage and betrayal from all who complained about Clinton’s email server.
Some enterprising journalists should go back to the summer of 2016 and dig up some quotes from Republicans “concerned” about Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified documents while at the State Department, and ask them what they think of what Trump did. Lindsey Graham comes to mind.
“Well, certainly no one bought them…turns out there’s a huge glut of fake classified Trump White House documents on the Dark Web because some assholes have been pretending to be ex-Trump WH officials and no one believed ours were legit.”
Un-fucking-believable. If they found MARKED TS documents I’ll bet they found SCI material, the disclosure of which can cause “Grave Danger to National Security”. This is a very serious infraction of USC Title 18 Sections 791-798.
They absolutely need to bust him for this. This cannot be brushed aside because of politics. This guy is a traitor and needs to go into a concrete box in Federal Supermax facility for a while.
He will claim that he declassified everything before packing the boxes. How would DOJ prove otherwise unless there is a specific protocol, including signatures and dates, for any document declassification? Furthermore, the president should not be unilaterally allowed to declassify anything that he lacks the expertise to understand. Where are the checks and balances when the NSC does not want to declassify something and an ignorant, bullying president overrides the experts? Jared could never meet the requirements for top secret security clearance yet, Trump overrode his sketchy and inaccurate application and voilĂ , Jarvanka are security experts.
The president is not a king even if he does have a golden throne (that doesn’t flush well.)
There should be a duty to report when national security is at risk and clearly established laws are being broken. There is a duty to report for suspected child abuse. How about abuse of classified material affecting the well-being of this entire country? White House aides work for us and should be responsible for reporting security breeches.