Why didn’t the Trump lawyer team’s court filing today include the claim that Trump declassified the documents?

So you admit, you have no proof one way or another.
Why would lawyers preemptively put out information that would support their defense...thats what the courtroom is for.......unless you wish for a trial by media.....LOL
lol why are you somehow under the impression you have a better idea of whether or not he did than me? Of course I don’t have proof. I don’t need to prove a negative, however. Someone else has to prove that he did.

Did you even read that filing? It laid out their legal argument for the case of why it was an illegal search. Of course it would make sense to make the claim. In court is when they can prove it happened. They don’t need to wait til then to say it.
 
Him having the authority obviously doesn’t mean he actually did it. Actually doing it is a formal process that involves paperwork. It’s not like he can just lay in bed one night at 3AM and say to himself “I’m declassifying that shit. No one needs to know, though.”
They try and argue otherwise to their peril.
 
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This bullshit is more tiring than the hundreds of Benghazi threads.
'Notably, Trump's team made no mention in Wednesday's filing of his weeks-long assertion that he had broadly declassified all the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago, a claim he was making on Truth Social as recently as Wednesday morning. It also didn't address the DOJ's most damning allegation, made in a court filing Tuesday night: that it had evidence of "likely" efforts to obstruct its investigation into Trump's handling of national security information.' ibid

Because Trump didn’t ‘de-classify’ anything – and Trump knows he tried to obstruct the investigation.
 
I wonder if Trump erroneously believed and accepted the legal experts who suggested that "by the nature of being president he declassifies at his own pleasure" or whatever the argument was.

I believe Dershowitz made a similar argument at Trumps impeachment and on other occassions in regards to classification of documents.
Ignorance of classified documents is no defense. He had three in his desk.
 
'Notably, Trump's team made no mention in Wednesday's filing of his weeks-long assertion that he had broadly declassified all the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago, a claim he was making on Truth Social as recently as Wednesday morning. It also didn't address the DOJ's most damning allegation, made in a court filing Tuesday night: that it had evidence of "likely" efforts to obstruct its investigation into Trump's handling of national security information.' ibid

Because Trump didn’t ‘de-classify’ anything – and Trump knows he tried to obstruct the investigation.
He obstructed and lied, and brought his stooge lawyers along for the ride. They won't be practicing law again.
 
'Notably, Trump's team made no mention in Wednesday's filing of his weeks-long assertion that he had broadly declassified all the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago, a claim he was making on Truth Social as recently as Wednesday morning. It also didn't address the DOJ's most damning allegation, made in a court filing Tuesday night: that it had evidence of "likely" efforts to obstruct its investigation into Trump's handling of national security information.' ibid

Because Trump didn’t ‘de-classify’ anything – and Trump knows he tried to obstruct the investigation.
So we've gone from NUCLEAR CODES!!!!!! to obstruction....


raw
 
Legal experts are tearing the filing part. It’s basically just one big joke. Long on hyperbole and short on legal merit.

However, what’s notable is that his lawyers didn’t include the claim Trump declassified those documents before taking them. Trump himself has said as recently as today he did.

Well he basically know why. He didn’t actually do it lol

We all know why.
 
Where is the MAGA defense? They must be in their rooms cleaning their weapons, because law enforcement is doing its job, while they prepare to punish the country for it?
 
Him having the authority obviously doesn’t mean he actually did it. Actually doing it is a formal process that involves paperwork. It’s not like he can just lay in bed one night at 3AM and say to himself “I’m declassifying that shit. No one needs to know, though.”

Not. There is no formal process required for a President to declassify. Think on to, who could make u such a rule? Not congress, so who? Indeed EO's spell out that the President is exempt from any such process.

From EO 13526 signed by Øbama:​
Sec. 3.5. Mandatory Declassification Review.
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, all information classified under this order or predecessor orders shall be subject to a review for declassification by the originating agency if:​
...​
(b) Information originated by the incumbent President or the incumbent Vice President; the incumbent President’s White House Staff or the incumbent Vice President’s Staff; committees, commissions, or boards appointed by the incumbent President; or other entities within the Executive Office of the President that solely advise and assist the incumbent President is exempted from the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section.​
 
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Not. There is no formal process required for a President to declassify. Think on to, who could make u such a rule? Not congress, so who? Indeed EO's spell out that the President is exempt from any such process.

From EO 13526 signed by Øbama:​
Sec. 3.5. Mandatory Declassification Review.
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, all information classified under this order or predecessor orders shall be subject to a review for declassification by the originating agency if:​
...​
(b) Information originated by the incumbent President or the incumbent Vice President; the incumbent President’s White House Staff or the incumbent Vice President’s Staff; committees, commissions, or boards appointed by the incumbent President; or other entities within the Executive Office of the President that solely advise and assist the incumbent President is exempted from the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section.​
Lol nothing you put here is an indication there is NOT a formal process to declassify documents.
 
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Obstruction. If you had kept up you would have heard that word. It's part of the DOJ roadmap.
We've gone through two frantic weeks of every spurious and specious charge that you moonbat freaks have conjured up, and now the best thing you drips can come up with is obstruction?

If this isn't proof that you numbskulls are on yet another snipe hunt, I don't know what would be.

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