Bradley P. Moss
@BradMossEsq
With yet another court filing, it is increasingly clear there is no evidence of Trump's alleged "standing declassification order", and no evidence that these particular classified records were ever declassified.
Andrew Weissmann
@AWeissmann
18 USC section 1001 makes it a crime to lie to a federal judge. Will Trump tell FLA court he had a blanket order declassifying everything (including nuclear capability docs)? I doubt it cause at bottom he’s scared as hell of accountability and jail.
The quotation in the third tweet is from p. 4 of the parties' September 9 joint response filed on September 9. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... 3.83.0.pdfHarry Litman
@harrylitman
Importantly, Trump doesn’t argue that he declassified material. Closest is this: “DOJ stance wrongly assumes that if a document has a classification marking, it remains classified in perpetuity.”
However, on the following page, Trump's lawyers dropped this footnote: "Plaintiff anticipates filing a deeper analysis of these issues in upcoming filings."
I take this sentence to mean that Trump's lawyers are working away in their bullshit factory, and that they might yet file something about declassification.