Donald Trump's legal team was told to back up their client by the special master in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. The safety of the nation was put at risk by Donald Trump because he was ignorant enough to believe he could declassify top secret documents. CNN's Jake Tapper played a clip on "State of The Union" of Trump saying that he could declassify anything just by saying so. Do you know how it works? Tapper asked if he knew anything about it. It is not how it works. The comments don't show much intelligence. He told Tapper that if he could just think about it, he would be even more dangerous. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Donald Trump saying he could declassify anything just by thinking about it: "No, that's not how it works. Those comments don't demonstrate much intelligence of any kind ... If that's his view, he's even more dangerous than we thought." pic.twitter.com/iUHTlIweXT
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Information about the identities of spies or the location of weapons systems could cost lives if it's distributed or blurted out. John Kelly, Trump's former White House chief of staff, told The Washington Post that the former president didn't understand the importance of the secrets shield.
The people who are in the intel business are incompetent according to Kelly. He didn't think the classification system was right.
He said people work hard to get important intelligence.
The people put their lives at risk to get that information. The information protects Americans. The lawmaker said that for him to treat it so cavalierly shows both what a continuing danger the man is and how little regard he has for himself.
In Trump's opinion, he could spout off on anything he read in a presidential daily brief or anything that he was briefed on by the CIA director to a visiting Russian delegation.
Declassifying documents requires a process. It can't be done in a secret because officials would need to be informed. The records would be made available to the public and the press under the Freedom of Information Act.
The only person to back up Trump's claim that he had a " standing order" to declassify everything is a former Defense Department aide.
Raymond Dearie, who is reviewing records seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago, challenged Trump's attorneys to prove that any of the documents marked "classified" had actually been declassified by Trump.
The Department of Justice was slow in investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to the congressman.
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