Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Look, this case is different than all these other cases being compared to. for one this was apparently extremely top secret military, nuclear information.
Then the presidential declassification law should be amended to make it illegal for the president to declassify "extremely top secret information". But right now it doesn't. How lawmakers would go about quantifying this subjective term (so that they can add an amendment against it) is anyone's guess.
Yes, I agree. I guess congress does need to actually spell that out in law. I guess it was just assumed no president would take top secret information. Now that one has and repeatedly claims it was his to take, when it obviously is not, I guess they should make it official.

Look, George W's home is filled with his water-color painting of landscapes and whatever else he is painting these days. Bill Clinton's home probably filled with porn. No one has boxes of presidential documents stacked in their bathroom, do they? Those documents do NOT belong to the President, despite what Mr crazy thinks. They go to the national archives and if and when a president opens a presidential library he can request things he wants in there and if the national archies thinks it appropriate, they release those documents.

Trump just seems to think Top-secret national security documents are his to take, like towels, pens and other souvenirs. And the big problem with this guy is that nobody can tell him anything. He knows it all. The man surrounded himself with yes men that tell him what he wants to hear his whole life. Anybody that doesn't tell him what he wants to hear gets fired. Well now, somebody is telling him the truths he doesn't want to hear, and he can't fire them. And if he doesn't stop acting like a complete jackass and defying them, he is going to end up in jail, which is probably where he belongs.
The Presidential Records Act says a president can remove any and all documents and keep them for 5 years. Repeat, 5 years.