Don Surber 9/13/2022
The Washington Post version of the story was polite, "Trump lawyers suggest seized Mar-a-Lago documents may not be classified."
Trump's lawyers weren't polite. None of the records were classified as President Trump de-classified any and all material he sent home, as presidents do before they leave office.
They pointed out that in de-classifying his records, President Trump was only following an order Obama wrote. The WaPo story did not mention Obama.
The story said, "Lawyers for former president Donald Trump filed court papers Monday arguing against any pause in a judge’s order for a special master to review documents seized at Mar-a-Lago last month, suggesting that some of the documents marked classified may not be, and that Trump may have the right to keep the materials in his possession."
May?
The FBI took 11,000 documents.
It claims only 100 are classified. That's only 1% of what they took. They took nearly 17 times as many newspapers, magazines and clippings -- 1,693 in all.
His lawyers in a motion took the Biden regime to task over its Raid on Mar-a-Lago.
There was no bleep-footing around as the 21-page filing began:
This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is both unprecedented and misguided. In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records.
The new director of the National Archive wants his personal records and sent in the FBI to confiscate them. The bureaucracy always wants everything as it competes with presidential libraries for the paperwork.
Biden's FBI bureaucrats want to be able to sift through the stuff it took -- which may include the former first lady's underwear but definitely does NOT include any nuclear codes.
Trump's lawyers said:
The Government generally points to the alleged urgent need to conduct a risk assessment of possible unauthorized disclosure of purported “classified records.” But there is no indication any purported “classified records” were disclosed to anyone. Indeed, it appears such “classified records,” along with the other seized materials, were principally located in storage boxes in a locked room at Mar-a-Lago, a secure, controlled access compound utilized regularly to conduct the official business of the United States during the Trump Presidency, which to this day is monitored by the United States Secret Service.
More:
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/09/trump-comes-out-swinging.html
