Mishandling Classified Information is now a Felony……Is Trump above the law?

[rightwinger]

As President, Trump insisted on tougher laws for handling Classified Information after Hillary was not prosecuted
It changed the law from a misdemeanor to a felony

As president, Trump approved a law increasing penalties for mishandling classified info. It could come back to bite him.

Back in 2018, Donald Trump signed into law a bill toughening sentencing for mishandling classified info that received little attention at the time.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[rightwinger]

Bradley P. Moss, a national security attorney, told Insider that Trump could face five years in prison if he's found guilty under a national security bill that he signed as president.

Trump signed the bill, which made changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, into law in January 2018.

 

[TNHarley]

Is Trump above the law?​

Lol. I love seeing people type this ignorant shit. Its as if some people think there is actually justice in this Country

 

[rightwinger]

It upgraded the seriousness of wrongly moving classified material, turning it from a misdemeanor into a felony — and increasing the maximum sentence to five years, up from one.

Moss noted that it was passed after Trump's relentless attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign on Hillary Clinton, who was being investigated over whether she mishandled classified information.

Clinton was never charged in that case, but it is now Trump who is under pressure.

 

[Polishprince]

It looks like the FBI was the violating party here. Busting into homes, rifling through ladies' unmentionables, getting their DNA on things.

Should the FBI be imprisoned or are they above the law?

 

[SweetSue92]

As President, Trump insisted on tougher laws for handling Classified Information after Hillary was not prosecuted
It changed the law from a misdemeanor to a felony

As president, Trump approved a law increasing penalties for mishandling classified info. It could come back to bite him.

Back in 2018, Donald Trump signed into law a bill toughening sentencing for mishandling classified info that received little attention at the time.

www.businessinsider.com

Desperation setting in. From your linked article:

But there are some doubts about whether the bill Trump signed into law could be used to prosecute him, Moss said, as it's unclear whether it applies to former presidents.

His aide Kash Patel told Breitbart that Trump declassified the material before leaving office under the president's broad powers for deciding what should remain secret.

Moss said "efforts by Trump to declassify records before he left office" were another key issue that could affect whether the measures could be used to prosecute the former president.

 

[sealybobo]

As President, Trump insisted on tougher laws for handling Classified Information after Hillary was not prosecuted
It changed the law from a misdemeanor to a felony

As president, Trump approved a law increasing penalties for mishandling classified info. It could come back to bite him.

Back in 2018, Donald Trump signed into law a bill toughening sentencing for mishandling classified info that received little attention at the time.

www.businessinsider.com

Proof Trump is guilty

Donald Trump Pleads the Fifth After Saying Only Guilty People Do

"If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" Trump said during his 2016 presidential campaign.

www.newsweek.com

 

[SweetSue92]

As President, Trump insisted on tougher laws for handling Classified Information after Hillary was not prosecuted
It changed the law from a misdemeanor to a felony

As president, Trump approved a law increasing penalties for mishandling classified info. It could come back to bite him.

Back in 2018, Donald Trump signed into law a bill toughening sentencing for mishandling classified info that received little attention at the time.

www.businessinsider.com

What law?

The one you love to see violated when illegals pour over the border?
Criminals in all your blue cities violating the law over and over and over?
The laws your Soros backed prosecutors laugh at while they let criminals roam the streets?

Are we supposed to play like you give a crap about the law all the sudden?

Conservatives: who's playing this game today? I'm not.

 

[Moonglow]

What law?

The one you love to see violated when illegals pour over the border?
Criminals in all your blue cities violating the law over and over and over?
The laws your Soros backed prosecutors laugh at while they let criminals roam the streets?

Are we supposed to play like you give a crap about the law all the sudden?

Conservatives: who's playing this game today? I'm not.

What does this have to do with Trump and the law he signed increasing the penalty for document handling?

 

[SweetSue92]

What does this have to do with Trump and the law he signed increasing the penalty for document handling?

Well now the law pertains to classified documents, and they weren't classified if Trump could unclassify them, are they? That's for starters.

 

[sealybobo]

What does this have to do with Trump and the law he signed increasing the penalty for document handling?

Trump said anyone who pleads the 5th is guilty. Then the other day, he plead the 5th. LOL.

 

[rightwinger]

What law?

The one you love to see violated when illegals pour over the border?
Criminals in all your blue cities violating the law over and over and over?
The laws your Soros backed prosecutors laugh at while they let criminals roam the streets?

Are we supposed to play like you give a crap about the law all the sudden?

Conservatives: who's playing this game today? I'm not.

The Law that Trump himself insisted on

Does it apply to Trump or not?

 

[rightwinger]

Well now the law pertains to classified documents, and they weren't classified if Trump could unclassify them, are they? That's for starters.

Yes they are
Let Trump go to court with that defense

That is not how documents are declassified
You do not get to waive your hand and declare a room full of documents unclassified

It must be recorded document by document and it’s official classification status must be changed

 

[SweetSue92]

The Law that Trump himself insisted on

Does it apply to Trump or not?

As I said: what law? Since when do you court eunuchs care about any law? Don't you have some slavish boot licking to attend to?

 

[sealybobo]

Well now the law pertains to classified documents, and they weren't classified if Trump could unclassify them, are they? That's for starters.

Why didn't you have this position when you accused Bill Clinton of taking classified information with him on his way out? Did he even do it? We know Trump's guilty of it. And he can show us the search warrant. He has a copy of it. But he hasn't yet.

The year was 2016, the presidential candidate under investigation was Hillary Clinton and the FBI director at the time, James Comey, laid out the factors the Justice Department weighs in deciding whether to charge someone with mishandling classified records.

Fast forward to 2022 and that tutorial proves instructive as another candidate from that election, Donald Trump, is entangled in an FBI probe related to sensitive government documents.

Whether an FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence is a prelude to criminal charges is unknown. The action Monday nonetheless focuses attention on the thicket of statutes that govern the handling of government records, though the department's own history of prosecutorial discretion — some high-profile investigations have ended without charges or in misdemeanor plea deals — makes it hard to forecast with certainty what might happen this time.

“These are statutes that have historically not been enforced to the fullest extent,” said University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck.

That is until Trump made it a felony. Now he should be charged with a felony.

 

[rightwinger]

As I said: what law? Since when do you court eunuchs care about any law? Don't you have some slavish boot licking to attend to?

Now you are just acting silly

 

[SweetSue92]

Yes they are
Let Trump go to court with that defense

Sure. The :14 second mark.

 

[SweetSue92]

Why didn't you have this position when you accused Bill Clinton of taking classified information with him on his way out? Did he even do it? We know Trump's guilty of it. And he can show us the search warrant. He has a copy of it. But he hasn't yet.

The year was 2016, the presidential candidate under investigation was Hillary Clinton and the FBI director at the time, James Comey, laid out the factors the Justice Department weighs in deciding whether to charge someone with mishandling classified records.

Fast forward to 2022 and that tutorial proves instructive as another candidate from that election, Donald Trump, is entangled in an FBI probe related to sensitive government documents.

Whether an FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence is a prelude to criminal charges is unknown. The action Monday nonetheless focuses attention on the thicket of statutes that govern the handling of government records, though the department's own history of prosecutorial discretion — some high-profile investigations have ended without charges or in misdemeanor plea deals — makes it hard to forecast with certainty what might happen this time.

“These are statutes that have historically not been enforced to the fullest extent,” said University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck.

That is until Trump made it a felony. Now he should be charged with a felony.

Talk among your fellow Democrats. No conservatives and only very few Independents are believing this. See the poll I posted this morning.

Oh

And no one believes the stupid media that fabricated this BS either. But you're never too quick to pick up on that

 

[sealybobo]

Yes they are
Let Trump go to court with that defense

I remember Republicans saying Trump couldn't break the law because he's the President.

The provision bars a person from holding any office “under the United States” if the person has sworn an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the government or “given aid to the enemies” of the U.S.

Trump’s 2024 Hopes Just Crashed Into the 14th Amendment

A provision of the Constitution designed to bar Confederate leaders from office may keep Trump from running again.

www.bloomberg.com

They also said he couldn't be charged while President. Well, he's not POTUS now.

 

[SweetSue92]

Now you are just acting silly

Dance on, court eunuch, dance on