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Yes, Trump definitionally cannot have leaked secret documents while he was president, because he had the authority to declassify them and the act of distributin
by GauntletWizard 4y ago
Yes, Trump definitionally cannot have leaked secret documents while he was president, because he had the authority to declassify them and the act of distributing them would have been a form of that declassification.
Reality Winner had no such authority to declassify documents.
- r2_pilot 4y agoThe former president[T] could absolutely leak secret documents in violation of existing law. The former president[O] signed Executive Order 13526, which was never [publicly] rescinded nor modified by TFP[T], and that EO defines how classified material is to be handled. Agree that Reality Winner had no authority to declassify documents. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526