Trump's "Standing Order" for Declassification: Complete Bullshit

[Lesh]

CNN Exclusive: 'Ludicrous.' 'Ridiculous.' 'A complete fiction.': Former Trump officials say his claim of 'standing order' to declassify is nonsense

In the days since the FBI seized classified and top secret documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the former President and his allies have claimed that Trump had a "standing order" to declassify documents he took from the Oval Office to the White House residence.

www.cnn.com

18 former members of his Admin say it's horse shit.

has ANY member of the Admin claimed they had ever heard of it?

 

[Oddball]

 

[Lesh]

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"Nothing approaching an order that foolish was ever given," said John Kelly, who served as Trump's chief of staff for 17 months from 2017 to 2019. "And I can't imagine anyone that worked at the White House after me that would have simply shrugged their shoulders and allowed that order to go forward without dying in the ditch trying to stop it."


Mick Mulvaney, who succeeded Kelly as acting White House chief of staff, also dismissed the idea and told CNN he was "not aware of a general standing order" during his tenure.

 

[Lesh]

Those are direct quotes

 

[1srelluc]

From what I understand Trump could have simply mentioned it somewhere along the line and from then on it was so.

CNN would better serve the public to take a deep dive into the unprecedented and boundless declassification powers that a POTUS has.....Really, a mere mention is all it takes.

 

[surada]

CNN Exclusive: 'Ludicrous.' 'Ridiculous.' 'A complete fiction.': Former Trump officials say his claim of 'standing order' to declassify is nonsense

In the days since the FBI seized classified and top secret documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the former President and his allies have claimed that Trump had a "standing order" to declassify documents he took from the Oval Office to the White House residence.

www.cnn.com

18 former members of his Admin say it's horse shit.

has ANY member of the Admin claimed they had ever heard of it?

Trump is just lying nonstop now. He must be frantic. The DOJ is just getting started.

 

[Lesh]

From what I understand Trump could have simply mentioned it somewhere along the line and from then on it was so.

CNN would better serve the public to take a deep dive into the unprecedented and boundless declassification powers that a POTUS has.....Really, a mere mention is all it takes.

If you actually believe that ...then Biden subsequently just CALLING them classified and BOOM...they are again classified.

Which means Trump was refusing to return classified documents for a year and a half and it took a raid to recover them.

 

[MagicMike]

Did you miss the part where CNN quotes HIS OWN PEOPLE?

That's the part where you Trumptards always look the most pathetically informed.
When you are blasting credible news sources as "fake news,"
Because (of course) your fuhrer told you it was.
But there's NO F-ing way it could be made up....or fake.
Yet you morons haven't seen it in your "news."

Um....can you say BRAINWASHED?

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Trump can declassify anything he wanted while president.
Just as all other presidents have done.

It doesn't need to be a written order or law either. It can be verbal.
It's part of the prestige of the presidential office.

The information or the declassified information just cannot leave the country.

 

[ColonelAngus]

If Biden handed OP a loaded gun and told OP to shoot me. I think he would.

Serious TDS mental illness.

 

[Lesh]

The information or the declassified information just cannot leave the country.

Sure could

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

CNN=Fake News

OP=Liar

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Sure could

Sure it could..............the DemonicRats do it all the time.
They just don't want anybody else doing it.

 

[Lesh]

Sure it could..............the DemonicRats do it all the time.
They just don't want anybody else doing it.

Declassified means there are no restrictions on it at that point ...dope

 

[Lesh]

If Biden handed OP a loaded gun and told OP to shoot me. I think he would.

Serious TDS mental illness.

I am the OP.

And no. I would never shoot someone unless they were attacking me.

Not even an asshole like you.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

CNN Exclusive: 'Ludicrous.' 'Ridiculous.' 'A complete fiction.': Former Trump officials say his claim of 'standing order' to declassify is nonsense

In the days since the FBI seized classified and top secret documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, the former President and his allies have claimed that Trump had a "standing order" to declassify documents he took from the Oval Office to the White House residence.

www.cnn.com

18 former members of his Admin say it's horse shit.

has ANY member of the Admin claimed they had ever heard of it?

Oh, let's see what NPR and Politifact said back in 2017, shall we?

NPR:
WITTES: Well, so the president controls classified information. The - almost the definition of classified information is material the president wants to protect. So if the president wants to disclose it, he gets to disclose it. And disclosures that would be a very serious crime if anyone else did them are almost certainly not if the president does them. So, you know, if the question is, is there a criminal problem here, the answer is almost certainly not.



Politifact:

Do presidents have 'the ability to declassify anything'?

The blockbuster article in The Washington Post saying President Donald Trump had "revealed highly classified information

www.politifact.com

The President is the head of the Executive Branch. As such, he is the utmost authority on classification of documents.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Declassified means there are no restrictions on it at that point ...dope

Read the actual laws and regualtions governing such things, dickhead!!
Oh, thats right...........you CAN'T read, unless your overlords tell you it's ok!!

 

[Lastamender]

Those are direct quotes

From two yes men.

 

[Lesh]

From two yes men.

Yea...TRUMP "yes men" and even THEY say it's bullshit

 

[whitehall]

You almost gotta laugh that CNN is he chief beneficiary of leaked secrets from the FBI and the CIA and they complain about Trump's handling of documents. Classified stuff was safer in Trump's basement than it is in the FBI.