Legal expert reacts to Trump’s inaccurate claim about declassifying

Former counsel to House Democrats in the first Trump impeachment trial and former Trump campaign strategist David Urban react to former President Donald Trump's inaccurate claim that he could declassify documents by thinking about them. #ac360 #CNN #News

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  1. He’s shipped some boxes elsewhere. You can tell when he mentioned shipping to Maralago and where ever. He hesitated. He realized what he had said.

    1. HOW COME THE 🚰🚱 the @AARON SALTERS JR. death during the BUFFALO MASSACRE in May,2022…. which ironically he was also killed along with @ STANLEY MAYER. BOTH, JUST SO happen to have PATENTS for a vehicle that runs on water 💦…. IS THAT A HOAX TOO!!. and if not why wasn’t they recognized for their patents…,. ITS ALLLL OVER TIK-TIK. look for yourself. 🍉 @ALEX JONES… behind EVERY “conspiracy” LIES, TRUTH. these 2 individuals just happen to be killed….. the parents of sandy hood may have been real but the situational stature of the allegation holds many truths of what @ALEX JONES IS SAYIN👍 rhyme= REASON…..

    1. @Dan Alexander Audio um no… insanity is defined by doing the same thing and expecting different results. How many times have you been convinced that Trump was going down THIS time? What has been the same result everytime? And why do you still expect different results? Because you are textbook insane.

      It’s been 6 years. Make a conviction or sit down and shut up clown. Its become so pathetic that pleading the 5th actually worked ffs.

      When will you learn the media and government lies? This has become nazi persecution of Biden’s political rivals.

    2. @Nicole Bass it means the left has been chanting Trump is going down for 6 years and get the same result every single time while still expecting a conviction. That is textbook insanity.

      This witch hunt has become nazi persecution of Biden’s political rivals. This is no different than how Hitler rose to power on race issues and propaganda hate mongering towards his political opposition. Remember when Biden said you could get sick from exposure to unvaccinated? Hitler said you could get sick from the Hebrew too.

    3. @J SMARTIN who’s on uppers? Hunter and his dad? How much coke do you think it takes to prop up the double lobotomy patient potsto Biden for a speech?

    1. From Europe. It’s funny how you people don’t understand your own politics. But not surprising when you look at how you ‘educate’ your children.

    2. @Valerie Sr Taskey they already did. The republicans found no criminal intent on her part. The Republican leaders said that. So why does everyone bring that up? It’s a moot point.

  2. Stoned AF right now- that whole think it’s de-classified and then can the next president think “it’s classified” still sounds absurd. Carry on.

  3. This man must drive his lawyers mad! They’re trying their damndest to get him off with a somewhat plausible legal arguementt, but noooo! He’s gotta go and plead Jedi!

    1. @Mitzi Oldendorf I can’t believe you are even asking this question.. the answer is in the definition of the act being referenced…”obtaining or delivering information relating to “national defense” to a person who was not “entitled to have it”.
      1) Once he was no longer president, he was no longer entitled to have the material.
      2) even if through some twisted logic former president are allowed ‘access’ . He can Not prevent the government who owns the documents from having them, which he very much did!

    1. @Mohamed Trevino No idea what you’re babbling about dude. You linked a Chinese video, but respond in Spanish. Put down the pipe and cleanse!

    2. @Mark Mauricio They’re bots. And CNN videos are lousy with them. You can report them, and their accounts, but I don’t think it does anything.

  4. Does Trump not understand that you are not the supreme ruler of America when you are president. He does not seem to understand that we have separation of powers for a reason. It sounds to me like he thought he was Putin and had total power over the state. What a piece of work that dude is wow.

  5. Thanks greatly for getting that explained for me, Anderson! But, please don’t bring anywhere else where we have to look at him! I cannot stand looking at him!

    1. If he pleads insanity, I think it is more likely he will be institutionalised than if he is found sane and guilty. If sane and guilty, he’ll probably get home detention and only allowed to play golf 5 times a week. If he is put in prison, won’t his secret service detail have to accompany him, in a loony bin, maybe not so much.

  6. Even if Donald declassified the documents that doesn’t then transfer ownership to Trump…. It’s still government property

    1. @Magnus Mad Krantz He thought about it, and in his tiny little mind that good enough. I guess the orange paint finally got the better of what little brain he had left.
      In conclusion: Trump and anyone who supports him is an idiot.

    2. and that is what he doesn’t understand. plus if I were doj I’d be worried about the fact that he probably has copies somewhere.

    3. @rdv102 Any document, copy or not, that pertains to President’s time in office, is by definition government property. The law prohibits a former President from retaining Presidential records after his term – copies or not.

      That many were classified documents is also obvious, but a different crime.

  7. “I can declassify anything IN MY MIND” says tRump! This is really the best and brightest the gop in the USA has to offer us. WOW!

    1. sam…i like him but i have never trusted him…back in the day, he and and trump were BFF’s. i do support him being gay and getting to have a family, i can tell he loves that little boy and i wish him all the best…but….i think he is a republican…and voted for trump…

  8. “When you move classified documents to Mar~A~Lago or….wherever..”–THIS is why the D.O.J. and the F.B.I. needed to get their investigation(s) back on track!!! There are classified documents that remain missing, and our intelligence agencies can’t be waiting around for a special master to give them permission to do their jobs..

    1. MEANWHILE THEY IGNORE ALL THE INSIDER TRADING CAREER POLITICIANS AND ALL THEIR WRONG DOINGS, INCLUDING HOW THEY ENCOURAGED THE RIOTS, LOOTING, VIOLENCE AND MURDERS DURING THE SUMMER OF 2020

      GOVERNMENT IS A BEAST THAT LIVES OF THE BLOOD, EMOTIONS, BELIEFS, FEARS, TAX DOLLARS OF ITS CITIZENS, The corrupt politicians will say / do anything to feed that beast, Including breaking systems that were never broken before, attacking political opponents in disgusting and dishonest childish ways, will allow/encourage riots, looting, violence. will demand more and more $$$ to fix the problems they created , the problems never disappear but the $$$ ALWAYS ALWAYS DOES. No government program or service has ever been so effective that it made itself go extinct. WHEN IT COMES TO GOVERNMENT LESS IS ALWAYS ALWAYS BETTER.

      GOOD GOVERNMENT ENHANCES FREEDOM’S IT DOESN’T TAKE THEM AWAY AND THEN TRY TO SELL THEM BACK TO US.

      NO GOVERNMENT PROGRAM OR SERVICE HAS EVER BEEN SO EFFECTIVE THAT IT MADE ITSELF GO EXTINCT, ALWAYS A WASTE OF TIME, ENERGY AND MONEY, WHEN IT COMES TO GOVERNMENT LESS IS ALWAYS, ALWAYS BETTER

      HOW DID WE GET TO WHERE INSIDER TRADING CAREER POLITICIANS ARE WEAPONIZING OUR TAX $’S AGAINST US ?

      HOW IS IT WE DON’T HAVE TERM LIMITS FOR THESE CLOWNS ? MANY OF OUR “REPRESENTATIVES” SHOULD HAVE BEEN TERMED OUT LITERALLY DECADES AGO ?

    2. Lol
      This is so dumb.
      Trump was cooperative about the whole process and they waited 18 months to go collect anything. This is clearly just a political attack.

    3. WHAT ABOUT WHEN OBAMA, CLINTON BUSH DID THIS?? AND THERE LOCATIONS WERE NOT IN A LOCKED SECURED AREA THAT THE DOJ APPROVED WITH SECRET SERVICE AGENTS SURROUNDING IT, BUT IF IT IS TRUMP IT IS A SOME UNREALISTIC CIRCUMSTANCE?? YOUR PEOPLE AND THE HYPOCRISY IS A ABSOLUTE CRIME

  9. “If a president declassified a document and no one was there to see it, did he actually declassify it?”
    This is going to go right up there with “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to see it did it make a sound?”

    1. If President Trumps lawyers don’t call in Precedent, he should fire them, because every president since Washington came out of the White House with things that were Eyes Only.

      We still do not know who 355 was and she was the most effective spy in George Washington’s Culper Ring.

  10. “That may sound absurd to anyone who isn’t high right now…”

    Me (a high person): No, it’s pretty absurd to me too.

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