I am SICK of Trump: But his lie as to him having the ability to "declassify" nuclear secrets documents is too dangerous to ignore: NOT TRUE
This Trump lie is so iconic, it rivals the lie of NOT calling the Federal AID highway act, 1956, Public Parks, 1905, Public Schools, 1790, Social security 1933, and Medicare 1965 as de facto socialist actions. Yes they are, but here is the latest LUNACY belched out
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I ( TRUMP) can declassify ANYTHING I WANT. "
NOT EVEN REMOTELY TRUE as to nuclear weapons and Nuclear power. And here is the reason:
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"The Atomic Energy Acts of 1946 and 1954 produced an even stranger category of classified knowledge," he writes. "Anything related to the production or use of nuclear weapons and nuclear power is inherently classified, and Trump could utter whatever words he pleased yet still be in possession of classified material."
This means that any classification related to nuclear weapons would have to go through a formal process with oversight from other agencies and not just be subject to the president's will.
"The restrictions on documents of this type are incredibly tight," Wood notes.
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Note the comment. OVERSIGHT from other AGENCIES
Certainly, "other agencies" would NOT consent to nuclear weapons secrets deposited in an unsecured BEACH HOUSE ( Mar A Lago)
AND HERE IS THE MAIN POINT . THERE IS NO CHANCE THAT an FBI FIELD OFFICE in FLORIDA would be able to magically get their hands on Classified documents pertaining to Nuclear weapons or Nuclear power and TRANSPORT the documents to Mar A Lago
Those who believe that tripe are in total delusional fantasy.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nuclear-secrets/
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August 12, 2022
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At a historic summit in June, US President Donald Trump and Kim signed a vaguely-worded statement on denuclearisation AFP/File / SAUL LOEB
While it is still not known?what information the FBI seized ?in its search of former?President Donald Trump's ?Mar-a-Lago resort, some of the former president's defenders have already started claiming that Trump could have simply declared all of the information he took declassified right before leaving office.
While the president does have very broad declassification powers, that defense would not hold up at all if the documents in question involved nuclear weapons.
As The Atlantic's Graeme Wood explains , American presidents cannot simply declassify nuclear-related information with the wave of a hand as they might be able to do with other classified information.
"The Atomic Energy Acts of 1946 and 1954 produced an even stranger category of classified knowledge," he writes. "Anything related to the production or use of nuclear weapons and nuclear power is inherently classified, and Trump could utter whatever words he pleased yet still be in possession of classified material."
This means that any classification related to nuclear weapons would have to go through a formal process with oversight from other agencies and not just be subject to the president's will.
"The restrictions on documents of this type are incredibly tight," Wood notes. "If Trump was keeping nuclear secrets in the storeroom of his country club, without even the benefit of a?padlock , and resisted attempts to secure those secrets against?infiltrators ?and spies, a prosecutor might reasonably take more interest."
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Andrew Beckwith, PhD