Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "Greg Gutfeld: This isn't an affidavit, it's a 'gaffe-davit'" video.

It was obvious that Garland didn't want to be there when he gave that statement. He looked like a hostage reading a ransom note.
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@frankgrabasse4642 "And declassified is not as simple as a decree." It pretty much is. Politico fact checked this years ago during another Trump controversy. The president has the authority, the Nat. Archives doesn't. They can request a procedure. But if the president doesn't follow it, the power doesn't go to them.
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They actually think Trump was packing boxes with a tape gun? When they leave WH staff packs things. Trump probably didn't know about most of it except for some memorabilia.
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@Surelockohms That's not true. The president pretty much has the sole authority. Here's what the Supreme Court said: ""The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant." Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to "classify and declassify at will." Basically, legislation that takes away that authority from the president would likely get struck down. Because they can't change constitutional powers by legislation.
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It's just too annoying the way people like that parrot debunked talking points. Trump wasn't asking the GA governor to print ballots, he was asking him to find ballots. The latter is legal, and is how mail-in elections are decided -- batches of ballots are always found late.
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The thing is, at this point everyone knows this is just a witch hunt to get Trump. A attempt to reboot a Russia Russia Russia hoax. And these losers are destroying the credibility of institutions, DOJ/FBI, to do it. At this point, it's straight up irresponsible to take this as anything other than the use of the FBI as a political instrument.
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@howtheheckru8102 You don't even know the facts, just every leak by the DOJ. The ultimate fact is that the president pretty much can't leak classified documents. The Supreme Court: "The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant." Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to "classify and declassify at will." The Democrats are trying to take Trump out. But you can't change the constitution. You're not going to prosecute an ex-president for having "nuclear documents".
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@howtheheckru8102 You know your CNN talking points. Trump didn't try to disrupt congress. He's legally entitled to oppose the election certification. Did you speak up when Democrat rioters in May 2020 set the White House security booth on fire, then went and set St. Johns church on fire? Didn't think so.
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@howtheheckru8102 There were 1000 riots in 2020 by leftists. Nobody had to poll them, they were leftist rioters who set fires, killed people, and rioted across the country. Bombs were set off at the Portland Mark O'Hatfield federal courthouse. The problem is that you people are total poseurs. You virtue signal, but those aren't values. Democrat riots killed 30, and caused 2 billion in just insurance claims.
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These are non-prosecutable crimes, because the president has ultimate authority over classification. Any trial would just result in a constitutional crisis and mistrial. If the documents are declassified there was no crime, if they were not, then Trump would just say on the stand they're classified so "no comment". Garland is not very smart. Because his only professional defense is that this wasn't a political operation, but it can only continue as a political operation.
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It's insufferable that people like the woman in the white blazer think they have moral authority. So the Archive Department said Obama was a good guy -- so they're just like every other bureaucracy, full of partisan Democrats. That doesn't mean anything. What makes people think they can push 20 fake scandals based on lies, and we're going to take them seriously this time?
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