Nothing Is as It Appears Who Can We Trust From Past Administrations?

Posted by Dobrien 6 months, 2 weeks ago to History
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Think Game Theory.

Is this going to haunt Biden and future presidents? More importantly, will it haunt past presidents like Obama, Bush and Clinton?
I would bet on it.

Biden as an incumbent president just set the precedent that past presidents’ classified documents can be made public by the incumbent president. Guess who is going to be the next incumbent president?

Trump already knows he’ll be president, and believe me, there is panic in DC.

More from the AP News:

While not spelled out in the Constitution, executive privilege has developed to protect a president’s ability to obtain candid counsel from his advisers without fear of immediate public disclosure and to protect his confidential communications relating to official responsibilities.

But that privilege has its limitations in extraordinary situations, as exemplified during the Watergate scandal, when the Supreme Court ruled that it could not be used to shield the release of secret Oval Office tapes sought in a criminal inquiry, and following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

It is important to know that it is a privilege, not a right. It won’t protect a president from “criminal” investigations. That’s really important, especially in reference to the 9/11 terrorist attack, which is a subject I will certainly cover in the coming articles.

More from the AP News:

The Jan. 6 insurrection belongs among those ranks, Biden’s White House counsel wrote to the keeper of records, the Archivist of the United States.

According to an executive order on presidential records, the archivist of the United States “shall abide by any instructions given him by the incumbent President or his designee unless otherwise directed by a final court order.”

Did you catch that last part?

The Archivist must abide by the decision of the incumbent president unless directed by a court order. That is the other way a declaration of executive privilege can be overridden. A final court order can remove executive privilege.

Can you see why Trump prioritized flipping the Supreme Court?

Trump purposely fought his claim of executive privilege all the way to the Supreme Court in order to set a future precedent.

All part of the plan.

According to Politico:

The Supreme Court has rejected former President Donald Trump’s bid to use executive privilege to block a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection from accessing a trove of records created by Trump’s White House.

Trump had sought to block access to more than 750 pages of records that the National Archives, which house the former president’s records, determined were relevant to the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation.

Once again, think “Game Theory”.

How do you remove the use of executive privilege by past presidents to hide their crimes?

You get the Supreme Court to set the precedent that it no longer applies.

The Archivist gave up all the information, including classified information pertaining to Jan. 6—that is the exculpatory evidence that has been dripping out and proving that the insurrection was an enemy staged plan that has now entrapped members of Congress in treason.

Can you say Adam Schiff, Adam Kinzinger, Eric Swalwell and Liz Cheney?

Nothing can stop what’s coming.

But why did the Supreme Court reject Trump’s executive privilege?

More from Politico:

The court’s action left in effect a ruling last month from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in which a three-judge panel said Trump had not met his legal burden to block disclosure of the records.

The appeals court panel concluded unanimously that Trump could not assert executive privilege over the records as a former president because the incumbent, President Joe Biden, had agreed to hand the files over to the House committee.

Because the incumbent president withdrew executive privilege, the court denied Trump’s use of executive privilege to protect his presidential documents.

This is a good thing. Trump wanted this outcome.

He is, in a very orderly fashion, knocking down every single future defense lawyer argument that will prevent past presidents from being prosecuted for their crimes. He is disarming them within the legal system by making himself a target and setting court precedent. He also knows that he will soon be president again, and then he will be the deciding factor over whether or not anything is protected by executive privilege.

Checkmate!
SOURCE URL: https://badlands.substack.com/p/nothing-is-as-it-appears


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  • Posted by mccannon01 6 months, 2 weeks ago
    Hooooooly Schiffffff!!! Long article but worth getting through. Joe Lange squeezed a lot into this one. I really hope Trump wins and has the courage to see this through. I also hope he has an extremely good security team that makes sure he survives to do what needs to be done.
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