(01-15-2023 01:08 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(01-15-2023 12:34 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  President Trump had the power to declassify any documents while in Office isn't that true ?

So why would he take some documents without declassifying them, he had the power,right?

He had the power, why would anyone question his actions, he was the President of The United States of America. Does anyone besides the POTUS have that power.

Some people on this Board act like Trump stole something, when at the time he had that power.

I believe this has something to do with Cross Fire Hurricane and the people behind it want these documents buried for ever.

Yes..The POTUS has unilateral power of declassification. There is however a process to follow to officially declassify a document after the POTUS declares the document declassified. The agency in custody of the document must date and stamp the document "declassified" before being removed from its custody. I think this is the problem with the Mara Lago documents and the Biden garage documents. Im not aware those documents underwent the final declassification steps although both Trump and Biden had the power to declassify them. Ive not seen any pictures of the Biden documents but we all have seen the Mara Lago documents and I didn't see any
"declassified" stamp on them. I don't think we would be having this conversation if the final step has been done in either case. Is it a technicality? Maybe..but..there is a legitimate reason for the process.

Do you have a link that says a President has to follow those steps? No, I'm not asking you what some talking head told you to think. If there is a law and that is what we are talking about here....

quote it with the link?