Donald Trump Had a Standing Order for Declassification of Docs

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Donald Trump had a “standing order” that the documents at Mar-A-Lago were to be considered declassified, according to a statement the former president’s office provided to Just the News on Friday.

“The very fact that these documents were present at Mar-a-Lago means they couldn’t have been classified,” the former president’s office stated. “As we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. American presidents are no different. President Trump, in order to prepare for work the next day, often took documents including classified documents from the Oval Office to the residence.”

“He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified,” the statement added. “The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the President of the United States. The idea that some paper-pushing bureaucrat, with classification authority delegated BY THE PRESIDENT, needs to approve of declassification is absurd.”

The Left in government leadership will attempt to contest that, but the President has very broad powers in this area.  Obama himself solidified that power in 2009.

Obama’s executive order no. 13526, issued in 2009, laid out the stringent process all federal officials and agencies needed to follow for declassification but explicitly exempted the sitting president and vice president from having to follow those procedures.

There is also an executive order by George W. Bush in 2003 that covers it.

Kash Patel, Trump’s national security advisor, said that all the documents at Mar-a-Lago were declassified.

The raid on Mar-a-Lago was a serious assault on the President’s rights, but that is how Democrats have operated all along.

This has been decided for almost two decades, probably before.
We spotted this next tweet on legal insurrection:

John Solomon discussed the standing order on Hannity.

“The President said he declassified these documents,” Solomon remarked. “I’ve seen the statement. I spent the last week trying to understand how that happened.”

He told Hannity that the “classification is currently governed is by two executive orders. One in 2003 by President Bush, one in 2009 called 13526 by President Obama. It says ‘everybody the government who wants it to classify a document must follow these the classification procedures except the president and the vice president. They made declassify anything, for any reason, at any moment, while they are the incumbent if it assists the role of their job.”

“I am told that that is what governs the decision that President Trump did as he governed how he handled classified documents on the White House on a daily basis,” Solomon adds.


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Anonymous
1 year ago

It has been long understood that the president has the power to declassify documents.

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Anonymous
1 year ago

As long as there are Democrats, this will continue until they are tried for treason.
Trump’s righteousness is rubbing against the Democrat’s self-righteousness…
That’s why Killary said, “If that F****** bastard wins, WE all are going to hang from nooses…” Trump is God’s wrecking ball for such a time as this…

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WarrenZ
1 year ago

I believe these swamp dwellers are looking for documents that incriminates them. They are declassified after all.

Zigmont
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Zigmont
1 year ago

One thing that i find odd is why now? Trump had been out of office for a year this Febuary and all of a sudden the National Archives folks want to go through the documents he took home, he said have at it, and they took some stuff with them, then a second visit on june 3rd and they got some more documents, then the J/6th commitee has their first hearing on june 9th, their last one on july 21st(which was a NOTHING BURGER) and then 17 days later on aug 8th, BOOM we gotta raid Trumps home, he has all kinds of secrect documents !!!!! maybe a fishing expedition,maybe they know he has the goods on the crossfire hurricane, the steel dosier scam, who knows? RELEASE THE AFFADAVIT NOW !!!!

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demsareevilllllll
1 year ago
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This will only stop when DEMS GET JAILED….McCabe, Page, Strock, Comey, Weissman, BIDEN, Rice, OBAMA…

But realistically if they JAIL McCabe, Page, Strock Comey and Weissman, this sh-t will stop.