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Zeng Zhu's avatar

If presidential records act and Clinton's socks drawer case allows the ex presidents the access to his own records, define what are personal records, and keeps his personal records, and what is more, the act define extra copies of the documents do not count as presidential records, then how can they turn a civil dispute into a criminal investigations when Trump refuses to turn in his own records? There is nowhere in the presidential records act specify that it is illegal for ex presidents to keep the documents which are classified. If it is legal for Trump to keep the classified documents when he leaves the office, then FBI should never get involved in the first place. Then the rest of investigation goes away. The prosecutor deliberately muddle the water as if Trump were an average citizen. He was not, he was the president, and the presidential records act was created for person like him. Obama certainly had the deal with NARA to have the loans of his records, classified or not. Realistically all presidents left the office with government documents for their own sake of building a library or writing books or etc. If they prosecute Trump, prosecute all of them, and let the Supreme Court define what remaining privileges a president retains once leaving the office, it is not the job of the bureau which are beneath the white house to go after the president. Our country is supposed to run as a democratic republic, not by unelected bureau. By the act of FBI, we are upending the constitution article 2 that president is in full charge of executive branch.

The case against Hillary and Biden is stronger because as a senator or secretary of state, they are not allowed to keep the security documents in the first place.

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Michel Brisebois's avatar

Waving a paper around doesn't imply guilt, since they don't have the paper, don't seem to know which one it was, and presumably the so-called witnesses never read it, otherwise they would state that as fact in the indictment. As far as anybody knows, Trump was waving around a cocktail napkin and just mouthing off. I don't see a problem with this accusation on a potential hypothetical document. They would have to prove that actual classified materials were in the room, and witnesses read them and be able to identify them to prove that fact, not just some silly macho bravado rants on tape. Tempest in a tea cup.

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