With all the talk about classified documents lately, have you ever paused for a second and wondered what is the actual content of these alleged documents or are you just happy that the other team got caught?The Truth Addict Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
By 'our team' I was referring to tribalistic voters. Not the con men who the voters make excuses for as long as they are on the right team. Both 'teams' (Trump, Pence, Biden) have now been alleged to have violated security protocols (possibly criminally if any are true), yet nobody has asked what is in these alleged docs. Why? Cuz all that matters is the other team was caught. Details apparently are irrelevant.
Understood-- and I agree with the assertion. Any and all comments about the substance of the documents were speculative and aimed at discrediting the other tribe. I also think there is a substantive legal difference in that Trump was president when the docs he took were procured, and Biden was not.
It makes all the difference, because as I understand it, the sitting president has sole an unchallengeable authority to declassify documents, and prior legal precedent supports this. The Vice President does not have this authority.
I’m not sure that’s true. Either way, he’s not the first president to do it. All I’m saying is that owing to the authority of the office relative to the offense, it’s not the same as Biden’s action. You could also credibly assert that his deciding to keep the docs at Mar-A-Lago (which he did while president) was implicit declassification.
Interestingly worded question. The difficulty arises finding *anyone* in power, ever, as being on our team.
By 'our team' I was referring to tribalistic voters. Not the con men who the voters make excuses for as long as they are on the right team. Both 'teams' (Trump, Pence, Biden) have now been alleged to have violated security protocols (possibly criminally if any are true), yet nobody has asked what is in these alleged docs. Why? Cuz all that matters is the other team was caught. Details apparently are irrelevant.
Understood-- and I agree with the assertion. Any and all comments about the substance of the documents were speculative and aimed at discrediting the other tribe. I also think there is a substantive legal difference in that Trump was president when the docs he took were procured, and Biden was not.
If they are classified, they are classified. I honestly dont see how the who, what or when makes any difference.
It makes all the difference, because as I understand it, the sitting president has sole an unchallengeable authority to declassify documents, and prior legal precedent supports this. The Vice President does not have this authority.
And Trump was no longer president at the time either
But Trump didnt declassify them.
I’m not sure that’s true. Either way, he’s not the first president to do it. All I’m saying is that owing to the authority of the office relative to the offense, it’s not the same as Biden’s action. You could also credibly assert that his deciding to keep the docs at Mar-A-Lago (which he did while president) was implicit declassification.