Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 7:38 pm
Am I reading this right? trump doesn't want to prove he declassified everything because it will be his defense if indicted?
It sounds like the slippery slope Trump's defenders were standing on might have just become a sheer cliff.
Any "conspiracy"-type argument depends on dancing -- avoiding getting pinned down on the specifics of any one issue, "just asking questions", and speculating about possibilities without making statements. The problem with that is that once a single effective blow is landed and a vulnerability is exposed, the whole argument falls apart. Kind of like the Klingon Bird of Prey at the end of
Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country -- once they hit it with one photon torpedo, it was a sitting duck.
In any case, this is a beautiful Morton's fork: If the documents are classified, they are not under the Special Master's purview (and cannot possibly be the property of Trump), but if they were declassified, Trump has to explain what was declassified, why it was declassified, and how that was accomplished to the Special Master so he knows what he can look at and rule on.
I'm starting to believe that Trump won't be able to weasel his way out of this one...