Comments by "MrEkzotic" (@MrEkzotic) on "DOJ late-night filing reveals new details on Mar-a-Lago raid" video.

  1. False
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  2.  @peteo3436  The president doesn't need a process. All executive authority is vested in the office of the president.
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  3.  @JustinGaither  How do you know there is no record? In any case, the very act of him storing the records at Mar a Lago is implicit declassification. Again, he is the executive branch, he doesn't have to go through any process.
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  4.  @danallanson5990  He did declassify them. And the presidential records acts provides up to 12 years to negotiate with the archives on which documents should be returned and which stay with the former president. It's not a crime, it's a civil issue. I am very concerned about blackmail and leverage from foreign rivals, that's why I want to know why the FBI tried to hide Hunter's laptop and even lied about it being Russian disinformation.
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  5.  @osufan77  No he doesn't. Who told you this? The elected president is not subservient to some bureaucracy that falls under the executive branch.
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  6.  @jeffc2630  By the way, Trump doesn't personally pack up the records and documents, the GAO is responsible for doing that.
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  7.  @JayOwinFull  Just because republicans won't go along with what the far left is trying to do, it doesn't mean we don't have honor. Of course, you always have extremists on both sides of the political spectrum.
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  8.  @JayOwinFull  Liz Cheney has honor because she agrees with you? No, she betrayed her constituents, she has no honor. Millions of people have legitimate reasons to distrust the results of the 2020 election, and instead of taking those concerns seriously and addressing them with sincerity, unelected bureaucrats told us to basically sit down and shut up. When you treat millions of Americans like trash and tell them their concerns are just BS, expect backlash.
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  9. Each one is true, depending on exactly which documents you're referring to.
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  10.  @tomhuynh8440  Of course I wouldn't, stop being ridiculous. Did you get your 4th booster shot yet?
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  11.  @kevcakes5318  Guess what? When he was president, he had executive authority. Pretty simple.
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  12.  @peteo3436  The 2nd court of appeals specifically said the president doesn't have to follow a process, stating: Though there aren’t specific protocols that the president must follow to declassify a document, federal courts have ruled that they will “refuse to recognize what they consider to be an inference of declassification,” McClanahan said.
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  13.  @peteo3436  We absolutely care about national security. But we also know Trump isn't foolish enough to do something like that, knowing how bad the deep state is looking to take him down. We don't know what documents he has, and neither do you. And given the FBI's history of manufacturing evidence against Trump, they need to have a big smoking gun, not just innuendo.
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  14.  @kevcakes5318  What classified documents does Trump have? Do you know? Do you know documents can be classified for just including one word? How can you trust the DOJ at face value when they have been caught manufacturing evidence to take Trump down? Show me that he recklessly or intentionally put at grave risk the national security of the US and I'll support criminal charges against him. Until then, I will side with my instincts and the past bad faith actions of the DOJ/FBI.
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  15.  @peteo3436  Well, whether they are declassified or not is something we don't really know at this point. Also, the FBI has been caught manufacturing evidence against Trump before, suffered no consequences for it, what is to stop them from doing it again? It certainly isn't ridiculous given the fear they have of this man.
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  16.  @davidburcar7620  Ok. Point taken. How about this: Whether the documents were declassified or not, only the president has the authority to say what are presidential records and what are personal records. If the National Archives disagree, they can negotiate with the president, but they cannot force him to do anything. They also lack any authority to forcibly seize any documents from the president's home. The search warrant issued by the DOJ was illegal and unconstitutional on multiple fronts, and I'm pretty sure that's what the courts will conclude, as that was the conclusion reached in other similar cases.
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  17.  @davidburcar7620  No more a cult than the Branch Covidians or the religion of climate change.
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  18.  @Craiglaca1  You people are so oblivious.
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  19. Just curious, do you think Hunter's involvement with Joe's corruption is important?
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  20. Or, wake up a Biden voter and make them condemn Schumer's violent threats against our SCOTUS...threats which caused a leftist to attempt the assassination of Kavanaugh.
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  21. Agreed. That's why Trump declassified them.
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  22.  @possum104  And he did.
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  23.  @JustinGaither  He did.
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  24.  @JustinGaither  Trump doesn't have the prove to anyone they were declassified, all the executive power is vested in the office of the president. Through the office, HE IS the executive branch. See Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution.
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  25.  @dennismichealsm3786  When you are the target of a rogue, lawless, and politically weaponized DOJ, it would behoove both the innocent and the guilty to plead the 5th.
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  26.  @ZeroRespectForMagaZero  He didn't.
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  27.  @jessestreet2549  He will use that defense if necessary. We now have justices on the SCOTUS who finally understand the Constitution, so I'm pretty sure that defense will work.
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  28.  @polygraphliedetector  The only cops attacked on 1/6 were those who were assaulting protesters.
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  29.  @StrongerCoffee1  I don't know what documents Trump had or has. None of us do. Anybody can make up baseless allegations and manufacture evidence...the FBI has already done both before. Didn't they just fire an unhinged and politically tainted FBI agent a couple days ago?
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  30. @K. Guillaume No.
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  31.  @JustinGaither  No. The president actually has what amounts to a magic wand. Ask most Constitutional scholars. Even my sister, a Constitutional law professor, said the same thing.
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  32.  @JustinGaither  You don't understand that the powers of the executive branch are vested in the office. All executive power flows from the office of the president. There are processes required for every other institution under the executive branch, but not for the president, if he chooses not to use them.
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  33.  @bobmusil1458  That's just incorrect. The president is not required to use any process for declassification...all executive power is vested in the office of the president, all executive branch departments derive their authority from the president. You really think the CIA or FBI can create rules or processes that the president is required to follow? That would mean unelected bureaucrats would have power over the president, that is tyranny.
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  34.  @bobmusil1458  Trump declassified the documents when he was president. He has already seen the documents. And I think former presidents keep some level of clearance.
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  35.  @StrongerCoffee1  That's not true for the president. Look at it this way, do you think an unelected bureaucrat who gets their authority from the elected president himself, can tell the president what processes he needs to follow? The president can declassify at will, in any way, any document created and classified by any department of the executive branch (that excludes documents classified by explicit statute). Most Constitutional scholars agree with me, including my sister.
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  36.  @jeffc2630  Second Circuit Court of Appeals: "Though there aren’t specific protocols that the president must follow to declassify a document, federal courts have ruled that they will “refuse to recognize what they consider to be an inference of declassification,” McClanahan said."
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  37.  @jeffc2630  I'm correct, it doesn't matter what you say. I have provided to you a well reasoned analysis of executive power as described in the Constitution, as well as court opinion. You have provided no substantive evidence or reasoning to rebut my claim.
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  38.  @jeffc2630  You don't know that, because we don't know what documents he had, or why he had them. Even if the documents aren't his to keep, that's a presidential records violation, a civil matter, not a criminal one. Very difficult to say someone is innocent or guilty when you have only 25% of the story. Hell, maybe he his guilty, and if he really is, the behavior of the FBI is not helping their case.
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  39.  @krp9110  He really doesn't.
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  40.  @krp9110  We'll just have to disagree...unless you are a Constitutional professor or you can logically explain how the president must follow a procedure written by unelected bureaucrats (bureaucrats whose power is derived from the elected president).
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  41.  @krp9110  This is what the 2nd circuit has said: Though there aren’t specific protocols that the president must follow to declassify a document, federal courts have ruled that they will “refuse to recognize what they consider to be an inference of declassification,” McClanahan said.
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  42.  @krp9110  What evidence do you have that Trump had classified-by-statute nuclear secrets? There is no reason for him to have or want such documents.
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