r/benshapiro • u/Taconinja05 • Aug 26 '22

Heavily redacted affidavit says 184 classified docs found at Trump residence… Discussion/Debate

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3616929-heavily-redacted-affidavit-says-184-classified-docs-found-at-trump-residence/
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u/MrEnigma67 Aug 26 '22

You mean the declassified docs?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

😂😂😂 if you really think a president can just declassify top secret information with a wave of their hand you really are something else. Okay if they are declassified what do they say? Oh you don't know, wow its almost as if its classified information 😂😂😂

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u/Reptar_0n_Ice Aug 26 '22

The president can literally declassify anything he wants, whenever he wants. The Secretary of State, can’t. Obama spoke about classified material when he announced Bin Laden had been killed. He didn’t go through any set procedures to do so. He had the authority to declassify that WHILE SPEAKING.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

Next time you're pulled over for speeding say to the officer "sir, others speed too" I'm sure that will get you out of the ticket. Also if Obama committed a crime then we should lock him up too, maybe if we lock up the one with the current pending investigation for breaking the espionage act then we can get to the smaller fish. Not to mention whats the legal rational for taking those documents when he wasn't even holding office anymore and refusing to return them for months after the national archives & justice department asked for them back.