Trump doesn't deny taking classified nuclear documents from the White House while baselessly

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

accusing Obama of the same thing

In a statement released Friday, former President Donald Trump didn't deny a Washington Post report that said the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home for classified documents with information about nuclear weapons.

Instead, he again attacked former President Barack Obama, baselessly accusing him of illegally keeping classified documents.

"President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified," Trump said. "How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!"

Asked whether Trump's statement appeared to confirm that nuclear documents were uncovered in the Mar-a-Lago raid, a former Justice Department official replied, "Sounds like it."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-doesn-t-deny-taking-classified-nuclear-documents-from-the-white-house-while-baselessly-accusing-obama-of-the-same-thing/ar-AA10B7gP

Oh FFS what a big baby.

[FirstLight]

1. wtf is he talking about? did I miss something?

I dont recall anything of the sort...is he making up his own reality again?

what sucks is the MAGAts will slurp it up no questions asked, and await further instructions... :eyeroll:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. is he making up his own reality again?

Yes

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Total bunk. None taken. 30 million, none classified, all under US fed gov control: NARA

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/us/politics/obama-national-archives.html

But the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, which preserves and maintains records after a president leaves office, confirmed on Friday afternoon that Mr. Obama had turned over his documents — classified and unclassified — as required under the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

The National Archives “assumed exclusive legal and physical custody of Obama presidential records when President Barack Obama left office in 2017, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act,” the statement said. “NARA moved approximately 30 million pages of unclassified records to a NARA facility in the Chicago area, where they are maintained exclusively by NARA. Additionally, NARA maintains the classified Obama presidential records in a NARA facility in the Washington, D.C., area.”

“As required by the P.R.A.,” the statement added, referring to the Presidential Records Act, “former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the presidential records of his administration.”

[malaise]

9. National Archives folks said Slobby is lying

National Archives rejects Trump's claim that Obama took 33 million pages of classified documents from the White House and insists they are in a secure facility in Chicago

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11106993/National-Archives-rejects-Trumps-claim-Obama-took-33-million-pages-records.html

Sue him Obama!

[FirstLight]

10. correct me if I'm wrong...but this is because former Pres. need access to stuff

so they can act in a advisory role during big events. And his "handing them over" was part of a age old ritual of the Pres giving his stuff to the Archives as he leaves office.

Am I close?

[malaise]

11. Not qualified tomrespond

but it may have to do with the location of PresmObama’s library

[Cha]

4. SHUT UP, you Psychotic POS.

[Boomerproud]

5. Sounds like slander to me. Does he really want to get in a pissing match?

Bring it on.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. "What about..."

Does this idiot ever get tired?

[VMA131Marine]

7. What people are missing when they talk about Trump "declassifying" these documents

Is that documents are classified because of the information they contain. Behind every classified document is a Classification Guide that tells people working a particular classified program how to mark materials associated with that program they create.

Declassification of a document therefore is not merely the act of crossing out all the “Confidential,” “Secret,” “top Secret” markings on the document because the classification guide still exists.

So if Trump says he declassified the documents without changing the classification guide that has a knock-on effect on any other document that contains the same now declassified information. If someone accesses information in a document Trump says he’s declassified without the classification guide being changed that information could still be considered classified. That’s why declassifying stuff is not as simple. It usually happens a a program level so there isn’t “orphaned” classified information hanging around. Trump is ex post facto saying he declassified these documents because he knows how much trouble he is in otherwise. It’s not going to work, and it can’t be allowed to work.

[twodogsbarking]

8. So he is confessing? Oh yeah.

[moose65]

12. He's confessing AND lying

Obama didn't "keep" anything.

The de-classified or unclassified documents were sent to Chicago, but they are still under the control of the Archives. The classified documents are still in DC (as is Obama, by the way). He never had possession of ANY document, and certainly never had them locked in the basement at his home.

[UTUSN]

13. K&R

[viva la]

14. The Archives immediately released a statement

That Obama had followed the rules, and all the materials are still under the control of the archives.

That is, he did not steal anything.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. He thinks that including the "Hussein" will win the day for him

GOPers always think that we sane people will react as irrationally to Obama's full name as they do.