Former DOJ national security chief says that Trump likely violated the Espionage Act and a separate federal statute

The president is special

All the Deep State had to do was visit the location without a warrant and pick up the boxes

But if they did that that could not have snooped through the First lady’s bedroom

Trump is very ignorant. Most of the documents were marked top secret or confidential. There's no security at Mara Lago. None of the documents belong to Trump. Of course Trump claims they are his... forget the Presidential Records Act.

Jared Kushner probably turned him in.

You could hide documents in your wife's closet if you are a real sneak thief.
 
Wrong.
A president has total access to all classified documents, and after they become ex-presidents, they still retain the legal right to all the classified documents they had access to when president.
The only thing that would be illegal is if he still was getting recent classified documents created after his term expired.
A president can not lose access rights to documents they had legal access to before, just because they are no longer in office.
Yes a person does have access to those papers when he's president. But they belong to the government not him, and especially not when he becomes a private citizen.
 
The president is special

All the Deep State had to do was visit the location without a warrant and pick up the boxes

But if they did that that could not have snooped through the First lady’s bedroom

They took 15 boxes back in January or February. These were hidden. Jared Kushner probably turned Trump in.
 
They took 15 boxes back in January or February. These were hidden. Jared Kushner probably turned Trump in.
Didn 't Jared make a lot of trips to Russia ? Just kidding, I'm not a Republican, I don't treat innuendo as fact.
 
The Espionage Act has a specific provision that relates to gross negligence of handling of documents.

The full interview has a lot of interesting insights.

“There's a variety of different possible crimes, but I think the two that are probably worth focusing the most on are 18 USC 2071. This really applies to any federal government employee who, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys public records, right? Records that are public records. Another potential crime is actually under the Espionage Act, which is 18 USC 793. And that actually has provisions that apply to essentially the mishandling through gross negligence, permitting documents to be removed from their proper place, or to be lost, stolen, or destroyed. There's also conspiracy provisions within that 18 USC 793. But certainly gross negligence could be proved by willfulness, because that would be even beyond gross negligence.”

One other important point she makes is that the FBI would have good reason to believe evidence is still there.

“It's a very overt step for the FBI to actually execute a search warrant that signals to the whole world that they had probable cause — that a federal judge agreed with — to believe that the evidence of a crime would be located in the premises to be searched at the time it was searched. So it couldn't be, "We thought the stuff was there a year ago, but not now." It would have to be probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime exists in that location at that time. And that means that the Department of Justice, probably at the highest levels, probably all the way up to the attorney general, agreed that this was a step that was not only legally supportable, but also important to take.”




"May involve" and "suspected" in the same sentence basically transfer to "they don't have shit".

This is just like the Russia dossier scandal where they talked about all this stuff they had but at the end of the day they were bluffing, they had nothing at all. It was just a high end smear campaign that turned out to be absolutely nothing at all that they couldnt even fine him 20 bucks for.

And the times they tried to impeach him which didn't work out either. It's all just a sham. They are throwing everything they can pick up against the wall praying something will stick.

But everytime they try this it has less and less credibility to it. Each time fewer people believe it because they consistently make all kinds of wild accusations but are never able to back any of it up.

They have been running full bore at him for like 6 years now and have accomplished nothing except wasting time, energy, manpower, resources and American tax dollars.
 
"May involve" and "suspected" in the same sentence basically transfer to "they don't have shit".

This is just like the Russia dossier scandal where they talked about all this stuff they had but at the end of the day they were bluffing, they had nothing at all. It was just a high end smear campaign that turned out to be absolutely nothing at all that they couldnt even fine him 20 bucks for.

And the times they tried to impeach him which didn't work out either. It's all just a sham. They are throwing everything they can pick up against the wall praying something will stick.

But everytime they try this it has less and less credibility to it. Each time fewer people believe it because they consistently make all kinds of wild accusations but are never able to back any of it up.

They have been running full bore at him for like 6 years now and have accomplished nothing except wasting time, energy, manpower, resources and American tax dollars.

your replying to a post from last tuesday. Things change quickly, we now know the extent of how much classified documentation was taken.

And then you go on about he steele dossier. That dossier was nothing more than raw intelligence, something that might be true, warranting further investigation, which turned out to be justified considering how much influence russia put into our 2016 election.
 
"May involve" and "suspected" in the same sentence basically transfer to "they don't have shit".

This is just like the Russia dossier scandal where they talked about all this stuff they had but at the end of the day they were bluffing, they had nothing at all. It was just a high end smear campaign that turned out to be absolutely nothing at all that they couldnt even fine him 20 bucks for.

And the times they tried to impeach him which didn't work out either. It's all just a sham. They are throwing everything they can pick up against the wall praying something will stick.

But everytime they try this it has less and less credibility to it. Each time fewer people believe it because they consistently make all kinds of wild accusations but are never able to back any of it up.

They have been running full bore at him for like 6 years now and have accomplished nothing except wasting time, energy, manpower, resources and American tax dollars.
This doesn't involve Republicans or Democrats. It only involves Trump the fact that he took public records with him that wasn't supposed to have in his possession it's as simple as that. No matter how much spin you want to put on this trump broke the law.
 

your replying to a post from last tuesday. Things change quickly, we now know the extent of how much classified documentation was taken.

And then you go on about he steele dossier. That dossier was nothing more than raw intelligence, something that might be true, warranting further investigation, which turned out to be justified considering how much influence russia put into our 2016 election.
Everything about Trump is chaotic, no surprise there. Should be his middle name.
 
surada
Trump is very ignorant. Most of the documents were marked top secret or confidential.


You were there I suppose and saw it with your own eyes

Right?
 
I don't have to make any excuses, you seem to have all the excuses in the world for trump. Good luck with that.
You claimed to have information that the rest of us dont

So lets see it
 
You claimed to have information that the rest of us dont

So lets see it
You might as well admit that you will defend Trump regardless of what he actually says or does. You will spin or deny ANY new development on this case. I mean seriously admit it. Get that massive weight off your shoulders lol
 

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