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Judge asks Trump's lawyers if he really declassified the docs found at Mar a Lago. Trump won’t say.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 84199083:MV81MjM3NzkzXzk2NDY4NzYxXzQ5RjJGNEM=] [quote:^TrInItY^:MV81MjM3NzkzXzk2NDY0NTAxXzFCOTdFMzFD] [quote:Anonymous Coward 80900409:MV81MjM3NzkzXzk2NDY0NDUzXzg5MkMxQzQy] Thread title is fake BS - only delusional liberal fascists believe that lie President Trump has previously stated very clearly that he declassified ALL of the documents in question. That is an irrefutable FACT. Just the facts. 1 star [/quote] Just because he said it doesn't make it true. [/quote] But he can declassify verbally as the president. It would literally have to be true as a matter of fact. However, all that's happening here is that the judge is not allowing the attorneys to know which specific documents were taken. Of course the crooked FBI could have planted whatever they wanted. But we all know which side you are on here. Either you are with the people or the powers that be. [/quote]
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The U.S. judge named to review documents seized by the FBI last month at Donald Trump's Florida home pressed Trump's lawyers on Tuesday to say whether they plan to assert that the records had been declassified by the former president, as he has claimed.
Judge Raymond Dearie - serving as an independent arbiter, or special master, to vet the more than 11,000 seized documents and potentially recommend keeping some away from federal investigators - asked Trump's lawyers why he should not consider records marked classified as genuinely classified.
"If the government gives me prima facie evidence (a legal term meaning a fact presumed to be true unless disproved) that this is classified, and you decide not to advance a claim of declassification ... as far as I'm concerned that's the end of it," Dearie told Trump's lawyers in his first public hearing on the matter.
Roughly 100 of the documents seized in the court-approved Aug. 8 search at Trump's home in the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach had classified markings. Trump's attorney James Trusty told Dearie it is too early to say Trump had used his powers while still president to declassify the documents - a stance that Dearie suggested weakened the claim.
"You can't have your cake and eat it," the judge said.
Trump has said in social media posts that he declassified the records, but his lawyers have skirted the issue in court.
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