(06-11-2023, 01:45 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(06-11-2023, 09:47 AM)mikesez Wrote: If his defense is, "I declassified it and it's declassified," there has to be evidence he actually did and believed he did before his term ended.  Yet we have audio where he says, as a private citizen, "that document there is still classified." So he didn't declassify, and he never claimed he declassified until he realized he was in legal trouble over it.

No, because what anyone else believes in immaterial to his authority. He can do what he did, end of story. Now, if the legislature and the judiciary wish to more clearly define that authority I would endorse that approach, but to say, at this time, that he did something he did not have the authority to do, well...that's retrospective action and clearly only being done for political purposes. Meanwhile, the current resident of the Oval Office had documents that the VP was not authorized to posses strewn about his personal properties and no one gives a [BLEEP]. Because this isn't about documents, it's about candidacy.