absurd claims. since the fbi searched donald trump s private residence and members club back in august. the ex-president declassified all the documents that he could declassify them if he wanted to, quote, even by thinking about it. it is a claim that has been repeated over and over and over again by trump and his allies. the disgraced ex-president mentioned it in public and the media appearances so many times. not one single time has that claim been made in a court of law. now new reporting suggests that the question of whether there is an a proof that he declassified the documents is a major interest to prosecutors at doj. new york times is reporting that federal prosecutors and former president trump s handling of national security documents, what a question one of his confident ants about a claim that trup declassified the documents. that confidante is cash patel, one of trump s biggest defenders in the documents investigation. he is a trump loyalist who made a career o
trump that the classified materials found at malignancy s found at malignancy h . at had been declassified. the fbi is on high alert following an attack at a field office and a wave of violent threats online from trump supporters. two republicans who have been critical of the former president face serious challenges from candidates who support him in tomorrow s gop primaries. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your week with us. one week after fbi agents desend on the home of former president donald trump, threats against federal law enforcement officials remain high. three senior officials tell nbc news that the fbi and department of homeland security issued a joint bulletin on friday, warning of the increase in violent rhetoric. the five-page document reportedly advised officials to remain cautious and vigilant facing threats. last week an alleged trump supporter was killed in a confron
declassify something and no one else knew about it except the people talking about it years later for public consumption is ludicrous. if he had, that has to be a process to memorialize. there is a process for which there is no evidence. let me cite the times they made that point. the plaintiff does not assert much less provide evidence that any of the seized records bearing classification markings were declassified. the applicant never represented in any of the multiple filings and courts that he declassified any documents. doj to the appeals court. the filings, plaintiff never represented or offered evidence he declassified any of the seized records. it seems that piercing this lie
one of trump s agencies, one of his appointees said that people that work with cash were terrified of the prospect of him going to cia because they believe at the time that cash s goal was to go find classified information. he wanted to get read into the most sensitive programs in government especially on issues related to russia. solt that information could then potentially be doos declassified. this has some connective tissue to what we re seeing now with the mar-a-lago documents. i think, nicole, one two of things has to be true. either donald trump and cash pa tell are lying about the declassification of the documents in which case trump did retain classified materials. they re telling the truth and somehow the president wrote a declassification order. if that s the case, they implicated themselves in another
materials. then he says, can you declassify by thinking it. what is in the public, at least, suggests that it was declassified. nicole, as you and everyone else knows, this is an utter fabrication. decisions by presidents to declassify documents are memorialized and socialized first with u.s. intelligence agency stake holders and other national security officials to consider the pros and cons of declassification. there is a specification that the companies and declassification of documents. there isn t a huge all encompassing i hadation of declassification that wash officials some massive classified documents. the notion that trump took specific concrete action to the