{"id":172478,"date":"2023-06-22T07:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=172478"},"modified":"2023-06-22T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:12:13","slug":"the-deliberate-doj-deception-to-contrive-fraudulent-trump-indictment-for-presidential-records-mishandling-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=172478","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>The deliberate DoJ deception to contrive fraudulent Trump indictment for presidential records mishandling explained.<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Trump Indictment and the Presidential Records Act <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->By Renee Parsons<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Like other media prognosticators eager to judge former President Donald Trump prior to a fair trial or presumption of the evidence, it is clear that the op ed entitled \u201c<i>Trump Indictment: How did we let things get this far<\/i>?\u201d did not consider the Presidential Records Act; and therefore lacks an understanding of the motivation behind the DOJ\u2019s desperate indictment to legally pursue Trump.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Oblivious to key legal precedents, the op ed degenerated into a political hit job relying on personal attacks as frequently happens when truth is in short supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Under the guise of an indictment, the Federal government initiated a political persecution to block Trump from seeking re-election in 2024.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As MSNBC\u2019s Rachel Maddow has suggested, if Trump withdraws from the presidential race, the charges will go away. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As the recent Durham Report confirmed, an FBI\/DOJ\/Democrat coalition created Operation Crossfire Hurricane in 2016 with accusations of Russiagate to construct a diversion from Hilary Clinton\u2019s illegal obstruction of justice with destruction of 30,000 emails as confirmed by former FBI Director Comey. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There have been no criminal proceedings against Clinton. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The FBI\u2019s August, 2022 raid on Mar A Lago was in pursuit of Trump\u2019s OCH documents.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite an obvious distaste for Trump, the oped\u2019s perspective has been skewed by political ideology, just as former AG Bill Barr who is a known Trump-hater with his own political agenda, is also skewed with incorrect assertions that \u201c<i>he\u2019s toast<\/i>.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Presidential Records Act is the sole governing legal authority in this case and since 1978 has established that every President as Chief Executive of the country has the exclusive, discretionary, non-reviewable, uncontestable power to possess any documents when he leaves the White House.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>No one has the right to retrieve any of those documents which may include classified, confidential, personal or public documents.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As a Constitutionally empowered, duly elected President, Trump retained that right and had the undisputed power to declassify any documents as a matter of Presidential discretion just as Article II, section 1 of the Constitution asserts that all \u201c<i>executive power shall be vested in the President of the United States.\u201d <\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition, on January 19, 2021, one day before he left office, Trump filed a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/01\/25\/2021-01717\/declassification-of-certain-materials-related-to-the-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation\"><span class=\"s2\">Declassifying Certain Materials related to FBI\u2019s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Operation Crossfire Hurricane<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> which may be found in the Federal Register.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That Order allows those specific documents to be publicly available.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2012, a lawsuit was initiated against former President Bill Clinton to return a stash of seventy nine audiotaped conversations with other foreign leaders on national security matters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Those tapes were retained by the former President in his sock drawer.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>An Obama-appointed Judge declared that the tapes were Clinton\u2019s personal possessions as the court held: \u201c<i>the President enjoys <\/i><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><i>unconstrained authority<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><i> to make decisions regarding the disposal of documents,\u201d<\/i> that the President has \u2018<i>sole discretion\u2019<\/i> and \u201c<i>unfettered control<\/i>\u201d over those documents.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That same standard should apply to Trump\u2019s documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This dispute should be about the dual standard of justice; the politicization and weaponization of justice that is now apparent with FBI and DOJ as publicly-acknowledged corrupted agencies operating outside the rule of law; conducting a seven year persecution of a psychological warfare campaign much like efforts to destabilize a foreign country yet all within cover of the federal government\u2019s unelected administrative state. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fortunately, the House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee are currently investigating and exposing the level of corruption, malfeasance, and criminal behavior within those specific Federal agencies, to hold those agencies and personnel accountable, to restore the rule of law and the remains of a Constitutional Republic to its rightful place in American life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Renee Parsons served on the ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors 2013-2016.<\/em> <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Indictment and the Presidential Records Act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}