The National Archives Case

The Classified Documents Case

The GOP response to Trump's illegal possession of classified documents is both hypocritical and indicative of a lawless regime


"Crooked Hillary Clinton and her team 'were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.' Not fit!"

(Tweet, July 6, 2016)


"On political corruption, we are going to restore honor to our government. In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law."

(Speech, August 18, 2016)

The National Archives Case shows Trump's utter disregard for the law

National Archives Case

Regardless of what you call this particular case, Donald Trump remains the Liar-in-Chief. These documents were not "declassified" by Trump at any time as confirmed by 18 of his former officials. There is a process for that, and those who classified the documents to begin with must be part of that process. He's not the Supreme Allied Commander. To his delusional MAGAt crowd, this is simply no big deal. However, the New York Times has done a masterful job of illustrating exactly just how big a deal it is. Simply click on the button below.

The Documents Illustrated

“Terrible the way the FBI, during the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending it was me that did it!) and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see. Thought they wanted them kept Secret? Lucky I Declassified!”

Donald Trump, the master of the hissy fit, continues to feed his MAGAt cultists the lies they so desperately crave

Of course, he was talking about 'Crooked' Hillary's emails here. We're sure he never intended the law to apply to him. Donald Trump sincerely believes he's above the law, and he has reason to feel that way. He has managed to squirm his way out of every crime he's ever committed. He needs to be held accountable for all of this.

The quotation above shows just what a lying liar Donald Trump is. The FBI exercised a legal search warrant on Mar-a-Lago. It was not a lawless "raid." Nor was it a violation of his "home." Mar-a-Lago is more than Trump's "home." It's a resort that many people pass through daily, including leaders of foreign nations, wealthy political donors, and entitled MAGAts of all sorts. To have classified documents haphazardly stashed throughout the premises without any kind of security is more than just irresponsible. It's unprecedented.


But let's back up. The documents should never have been removed from the White House to begin with. They are not "his" documents to take. And as has been stated over and over, he does not have the unilateral power to declassify documents at will. The documents he took were never declassified. In fact, the Trump DOJ under Jeff Sessions won a court case in 2018 that casts doubt on Trump's power of declassification.


There are other problems with that quotation. The FBI didn't throw the documents haphazardly all over the floor, and they never accused him of doing it. They placed the documents carefully on the floor so that they could be photographed for a court filing.

None of the classified information is visible to the public. Donald Trump is, if nothing else, a pathological liar and his cultists love him for it. He fills some kind of twisted void they all have in their lives, although just exactly what that void is we're not sure.


Night after night, he's out on the road painting himself as a victim of the evil left wing, a man who was robbed of the presidency, although there is absolutely no truth to that because there is absolutely no evidence to back him up. Even his henchmen, like Rudy Giuliani admitted they had nothing but theories. (Those theories were more like wishful thinking.)


If he's not whining about the election, he's the victim of the FBI who came and took "his" documents. He has even demanded "his" documents be returned to him.


As of this writing, a Trump-appointed judge has granted a Special Master to review the documents removed from his "home." This delays the DOJ investigation, no doubt, but it doesn't exonerate or clear him. It's a stall tactic.

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