Telling Truths

 At the masthead of this blog you will see a quote from Glenn Beck:  Truth has no agenda.  The truth takes no prisoners, does not appologize.  It is what people mean when they say "it is what it is." Today, at the American Thinker Ted Noel Truth Matters And Never More So Than With the Mar-a-Lago Raid

With the bungled raid on Mar-a-Lago by Voldemort Garland’s minions, we must turn off the valve on his gaslight and blow away the stench being spread by the lamestream media. To do this, we must unequivocally declare that words actually have meanings. As John Adams said at the Boston Massacre trial, “Facts matter, and facts are stubborn things.”

And here is where Noel uses the Truth to knock down each of the fantasies the Left has created to justify the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Noel lays out four types of items that the FBI might plausibly be interested in according to the salivating and speculating mob.

The first is the simplest. Donald Trump works at Mar-a-Lago while he’s there, so he has created work-related documents. Those are properly his and should never have been taken. They aren’t covered by the Presidential Records Act and aren’t classified security documents.

Second are his passports. As president, he had both a personal and a diplomatic passport. Those are his unless he is required to surrender them by a Court or the State Department. No such orders have been given and, should he be required to surrender them, the Mar-a-Lago raid would look like kicking over a sand castle on a beach.

The third class is security-related documents. Here’s where things get interesting. If Trump took classified documents with him and did not store them properly, then it is possible to suggest that there might be a securities violation.

But…

In 1988, the Supreme Court, in Navy v. Egan, declared that the President’s control over classified documents is absolute:

The President, after all, is the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.

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There is only one possibility regarding any materials taken from the White House before noon on January 20, 2021. Unless Donald Trump rescinded his standing order, all those documents were, in fact, declassified the moment they left the Oval Office. Thus, any Espionage Act charge relating to documents at Mar-a-Lago is bogus. As President Trump said, “All the documents were declassified.”

The only possible way that Trump could have possessed classified documents would be if he removed them after Biden was immaculated. But Donald and Melania left the White House around 11:00, and there is lots of news coverage to confirm that fact. He hasn’t been back since.

Of interest, Marine One flew in and the Trumps flew out on it moments later. Neither Donald nor Melania had anything in their hands other than the other person’s hand. As for the movers, they are required to be gone with all the outgoing President’s belongings, mementos, and whatever before noon. Put bluntly, if Trump didn’t get it out of the White House by noon, he didn’t have it at Mar-a-Lago, and that means that any papers fell under his standing declassification order. Game, set, and match.

Having disposed of the possible justifications for the raid, we are left with these truths. The DOJ no longer dispenses justice equally according to the law, but has been weaponized against conservatives. We used to take pride in the fact that there were no political prisoners in the United States. But January 6 prisoners have proven that is no longer true. The FBI no longer enforces federal law, but has become the American form of the infamous Secret Police, taking down the regime's political enemies. And of course, not lost on anyone, if they can do this to an ex-president, they can do it to anyone. 

And that, as they say, is the truth