June 10, 2023 - Epoch Times
02:46
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| We've spent the last, I don't know, two years, however long it's been, this guy's been subpoenaed by the DOJ on this matter about classified documents and President Trump has mishandled unlawfully classified documents. | |
| And when they have their time to step up to the plate and charge President Trump with the unlawful handling of classified documents, do they? | |
| No. | |
| They don't. | |
| That charge is on the books, Jan. | |
| It's part of an extension of the Espionage Act. | |
| Do you know what they use? | |
| They reach back to an act that has been on the books for a hundred plus years. | |
| It's called the National Defense Information Rule of Law under the Espionage Act. | |
| Literally talking about charts and selling utensils. | |
| It's so old. | |
| And in that part of the law, and here's a kicker that most people will not cover. | |
| The national defense information process that they charge Donald Trump with right now was written 55 years before the classified acts ever were written into Congress. | |
| That means there was no classified information for 50 years after the NDI. Then you have the classified unlawful handling of classified information to come under the Espionage Act. | |
| So why do they go back 100 plus years? | |
| Because they're now not saying that Donald Trump mishandled unlawfully classified information, and we've talked about extensively why we believe that's not the case before. | |
| They're saying he took stuff that maybe was classified, but maybe not, and we're going to charge him with 30-some counts. | |
| They took each document that they felt they wanted to charge him with, and they issued a single count. | |
| I think that's overly zealous, wildly so, and it's going to backfire. | |
| We can talk about that. | |
| But one of the big points I wanted to make was just that. | |
| If you're going to shoot your shot, shoot your shot. | |
| If you're going to kill the king, kill the king. | |
| If you've been saying for two years Donald Trump is stealing or unlawfully possessing classified information, then charge him with that. | |
| But we now know the rule of law because we on EPOC have so extensively put it out there. | |
| A president has universal declassification authority. | |
| He's the sole arbiter. | |
| Period. | |
| And we'll get to the Presidential Records Act and how that applies to everything else. | |
| I just found it astounding, the irony in the indictment itself. | |
| Not only do they go to the NDI to charge him with individual documents, but then they flip to the very end when you look at the obstruction and conspiracy charges, and they itemize he was using classified documents to do that. | |
| Well, it's one or the other. | |
| Both legalities can't be true in the same charging document. | |
| Either he took national defense information unlawfully or he took classified information unlawfully. | |
| They didn't charge the latter. | |
| They settled for the former. |
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