Comments by "Charles Brightman" (@charlesbrightman4237) on "‘He faces jail time one way or another.’ Legal experts say Trump’s ‘telepathy defense’ can't win" video.

  1. LEGAL QUESTION: As I currently understand it to be: a. The President's Executive Order defines how classified documents are handled while the President is President. (Executive Orders tell the Executive Branch how to apply the already legal laws and do not make laws in and of themselves, or at least are not supposed to). b. But then also, just because a US President issues an Executive Order does not remove the President's overall authority. Basically, the Executive Order is just to tell the Executive Branch of the US Government how things should 'normally' be done but it does not exclude the US President from disregarding the Executive Order as the Executive is of course the Executive and retains full rights and authorities to even disregard their own Executive Order, because they themselves are the Executive. c. Now, I am not saying this is how it should be for the sake of America's and America's allies national securities, but wouldn't the above understanding be correct? * If anybody disagrees with the above understanding, I welcome refutes that have a legal basis for refuting. Basically, "IF" America wants better controls over classified documents, then revise the US Constitution to make it so, so that even a US President could not overrule, nor the military and other government employees who swear an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution could legally disobey. But from an actual operative standpoint: What US ally would ever trust the US Government with any classified information ever again 'if' a US President could just declassify anything at all, regardless of the level of classification and/or harm that it could do, with their thoughts alone? And declassifying items with the President's thoughts alone: what about if a President has a mental issue due to age and/or other physical issues? They just declassify whatever they want to, all the secrets of the US Government even, just because their mentally deranged mind wants to?
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  2. Which US ally would ever trust the US Government with any of their classified secrets ever again?
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  3. Of course also: The current US President (President Biden) can say, or even think it, to re-classify ALL the documents declassified under the former President (former President Trump), and send a legal notice to former President Trump that any and all documents that Trump had previously declassified (certainly the ones declassified with Trump's words or thoughts alone) are hereby now classified again and all those documents must be returned to the US Government immediately. If these documents are not returned immediately, proper and legal actions shall be taken.
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