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“But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?” ― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Genuine question - is there a joke/irony in here or am I reading into it? At the end of the day, the height of the gallows makes no difference in a hanging, and results in the same punishment. So higher gallows only passes as a worse punishment to onlookers, but in fact makes no difference
@@markymark1256 no clue if this is not necessarily true but I think Pratchet here is talking about the wealthy man's gallows being smaller than the poor man's, therefore not killing them for things a poorer man would be.
@@markymark1256 You're reading into it, I think - or rather, that's kinda their point. The character is asking what the punishment should be for a crime that significant. They're pointing out the injustice that being poor is almost a crime unto itself, while the rich and powerful cause harm every day for no reason other than greed, and often escape punishment because they go to the same country club as the DA. If things were equal, the punishment for the latter would be so much worse than what the poor man suffers, and yet there is no way for that to be possible, because no matter how high the gallows, everyone's just received the punishment of death... there is no way to achieve true justice here, and all things aren't equal, and the rich man will escape the punishment the poor man would receive. I wish I could remember what character it was. It feels like a Vetinari line but he's a man who throws mimes in a scorpion pit, so.
@@awokentotime7157 When I read Snuff, the quoted section left me with the impression that if a year is fair punishment for the poor person stealing out of necessity, then the punishment for someone breaking the law because of greed would have to be significantly worse. So, if for example hanging a man for negligence would mean a 10 foot drop maybe mass murder would grant a 200 foot drop. This would make the hanging (or falling) period, and therefore the punishment, last longer for the condemned. It's been a long time since I read the book though and from the quote it can easily be inferred in the way that @AwokenToTime has so without going back to the source and confirming the context it's hard to say with certainty, and even then it might remain ambiguous.
If anything, our elected officials should be held to a HIGHER standard of ethics than the average citizen. The idea that any single person, even the president, can unilaterally declassify anything they want to, with no witnesses or officiation, is a completely ridiculous notion.
there have been so many ridiculous things that donald trump has done while in office that have gone unpunished or only a slap on the wrist. It's just so draining seeing people get away with things that would ruin almost anyone else's life just because they're famous and influential
I'm reminded of a scene from the film 'Liar Liar': *Fletcher:* Your Honor, I object! *Judge:* And why is that, Mr Reede? *Fletcher:* Because it's _devastating_ to my case! *Judge:* Overruled...
Well, when you refuse to pay your GOOD lawyers, they drop you as a client. Then, you're left with the B-Team. In this case, I think Trump's down to the Z-Team.
in sweden, after Z there is ÅÄÖ as well, so the Ö-team! funnily enough, Ö is also a single letter word which means "island", which he might have to escape to in order to avoid jail time
@@Vesperitis if you ran out of alphabets, you can always use another one, like after Z, use AA, AB, etc Trump must be going for the "lowest of the low class lawyers", where they barely passed law school and didn't deserve it because he got lucky.
And the troubling thing about that is Trump would have a MUCH better chance of getting away with this whole thing if he just had a bit more money and could afford to pay his bills
Wait, you mean to tell me that a man famous for throwing people under the bus and not paying bills might not be able to hire the finest lawyers available? I. Am. Shocked.
What bothers me the most about this entire fiasco, is the flippant disrespect towards our legal system and laws set in place. It bothers me that as an average citizen, I could never get away with any of this, but once a man becomes president all of a sudden they’re lord of the country, it’s just weird.
$$$$ talks, add partisan politics and decent lawyers (while he was in the White House) and of course he would get away with things. The lawyers and partisan politics saved him the 1st time Partisan politics saved him the 2nd. He keeps losing lawyers each time and other attorneys don't want to touch the case.
Trump’s policy is Schrodinger’s declassification - all documents are both classified and declassified until Trump checks what the document is and decides whether it is classified or declassified.
"He's the president, laws don't need to apply to him" is actually deranged, and they are just publicly saying it. What the hell? Edit: Wow, so many people in the comments don't understand that saying "If the president does it, it's not illegal" means the same as "he can break laws" Both mean the laws don't apply to him. Literacy and language comprehension has gone really down. And some just didn't watch the video and pretend nobody ever said that. Listen, whoever you are, I believe that anyone can learn and get better. Don't blindly believe everything someone says. Take a step back and think a bit, maybe you're not always right. Don't be that guy who calls everyone who disagrees with you a zealot, dehumanizing people with opposing views is a step backwards.
The whole party has outright hated America since the 70s. Every single republican would harvest your organs without so much as anesthetics if they could get away with it.
Because it's not about whether he did something bad. They just want an excuse to think it's okay. Sure he kept nuclear secrets in his vacation basement but it's fine because he declassified them so that means they're harmless. Oh and the FBI planted them so they're the ones who planted extremly harmful documents in his home
The defenders simultaneously want less government power while saying stuff like 'the president can declassify documents with his mind' and 'if the president does it, it is not illegal' How does that make any sense
How does it make sense for the head of the military to be the final word on how things are classified? Hmmm. I wonder. There really is no debate. This issue has already been settled in court. Bill Clinton brought home documents that they claimed he shouldn't have. The courts decided that he had that power as the president.
"Who would he notify?" It is often important to remember that the President is NOT at the top of the food chain. He is an employee of the American people.
That shit is brain dead. How do you not know who to notify? That's the first thing you ask when you start a new job. "Who do I give this paper work to?"
Yeah, as much as, I as a citizen pays for the same cops that arrest me. If you really believe that, try firing one, or better yet go to a PD and try to file a complaint.
@@erisgh0sted961 The point that the president has to answer to people is still true even if the saying "he is an employee of the people" is not literally true But...paying for them is not employing them. Your comparison is dim-witted and obviously flawed. You ignored more recent and more accurate comments and did not even try to compare to a sheriff specifically, who can also be elected at least.
When a conservative claims to be about smaller, less powerful federal government but argues near limitless power for the president in the same breath ... scratch a conservative and a monarchist bleeds.
Imagine being a thief with a sense of entitlement so vast that after you're caught with stolen items you demand them back just because you think you own everything by mere thought.
Then you have the thief and his friend saying that he deserves to keep the stolen items as a reward for stopping the items from being stolen by someone else(who doesn't exist)
I'm confused, are you talking about Trump or the average BLM looter? Ah what am I saying, there's not really a difference at the end of the day. Both have completely lost the plot, both are horribly racist and both should be kept far away from power or influence, and not be left unattended in a room with any women, children or small animals.
Fun fact: when you are known to throw your lawyers under the bus (re: get them sent to prison), you're not going to be able to retain the best legal help.
"Unitary President." "Anything the President does is legal." "He declared it in his head." Mfer this sounds like the Prince of Egypt. "I am the morning and evening star, I AM the Pharoah. My word is the truth!" Like deadass. 💀
@@katiehettinger7857 "your honor, have you considered that my conviction will result in pestilence and plague ravaging the lands on a scale unimaginable by mortal men?"
@darknightoftroy Exactly. Ensuring that no single personal could act as a sovereign monarch/dictator was pretty much the MAIN focus when setting up our government.
@@rheawelsh4142 Well, they're not wrong. -QAnon -The current state of the Republican Party as a whole. -The almost weaponized state of several denominations of the Christian Faith.
This reminds me so much of playing Dungeons and Dragons as a teen and there was always that one player who, when suffering catastrophic damage from some monster, tried to claim that they would naturally have cast a protection spell before entering the room with the deadly monster, and demands the Dungeon Master allow that retroactive spell casting.
@@Snacks256 … you know I can’t even be mad at that statement because I’ve said that. Not for combat but because I’m a terrible note taker with a bad memory (I’m trying to get better) so I wouldn’t remember much of last session and my notes ain’t helping. As you can guess I play characters with slight memory problems because I have memory problems lol
i usually allow something like this but for the price of an increased CR for that encounter. That usually shuts up complaints like this pretty quickly.
@@tranquilthoughts7233 Good idea but it usually punishes the party, what i do is secretly reroll the attack with advantage and max damage it Hurts just one player and the player that deserves it
As a former Fed, I often dealt with sensitive and confidential information. While I sometimes dealt with secret information, I very very seldom saw anything marked top secret, and only ONCE in ten years saw a top secret (sci ?) folder with my own name written on the outside control sheet (giving me permission to open and read inside the folder, only inside a properly SECURED space). None of these documents were treated in a cavalier fashion; there are specific rules and procedures that MUST be followed in how each level of classification is handled. I don't give a damn how famous he was or what position he held: Trump must be held accountable for his serious violations of trust.
I'm curious. Since you have first hand experience. On those confidential folders, are they secured shut in any way? Like, are they just like one of those manila envelopes with the little string fasteners, or is there some kind of clip to keep it from acidentally falling open during transport, or someone "sneaking a peak" while it sits on a desk" or something? Just curious.
Yeah ts:sci documents are no joke, The reason the classification is important goes well beyond "this is how we get him" It's actualy a massive security breach that they even managed to exit the secure location they were stored to get to mara Lago, much less how horribly mishandled they were and how God knows what could have fallen into the hands of God knows who
@@VeryDeathlyShiny I do not have first hand experience, but it is my understanding that these documents are never meant to leave secure locations where they're properly looked after. So it would never just be sitting on a desk where someone could "sneak a peak", and I'm sure it would be well protected if it needed to be transferred to another secure location.
Allow me to finish your comment: Violations of trust . . . created entirely by a biased media and accepted by those who view information superficially. Let me ask you, as a former DOE Records Officer: What exactly did Trump do wrong? Is there a formal charge I'm unaware of or is all this frenetic activity merely speculation (like the collusion delusion).?
I'm starting to suspect that to some degree the bad lawyering is "intentional", with the rationale that since their case is probably lost on the factual front, they can only keep power on the narrative perceived by their base to whom all the various courts' replies probably sound like "technicalities" and "legal mumbo-jumbo". From this perspective, deliberately building bad defenses and baseless arguments to elicit even more responses mired in technical discussions could appear to "confirm", to the eyes of layman voters, the typical narrative of shadowy political enemies fighting dirty with red-tape arguments that don't confront any "real issues". We could then be looking at yet again another "double reality" situation where people with a firmer grasp of legal proceedings (and especially their rationale and meaning) are baffled and outraged at these nonsensical shenanigans, while other people are convinced they are witnessing some sort of dystopian bureaucrats distorting the law to attempt some kind of political attack. If any of my conjectures are even a bit right, it would be important to not just talk about the technical issues (though that's still necessary and important), but also to try and dismantle these kinds of narratives.
This, absolutely this and nothing else. You hit the nail on the head and there is nothing else to be said. As monty Python put it "Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses" and they are trying to win over the masses while disregarding any rules or checks and balances put to regulate said executive power.
That has been his action for quite some time now. As long as he can keep shifting the narrative, nothing sticks around long enough to convince his followers of his guilt. And as long as he holds the power over voters, the Republican party will do anything in their power to look like they are helping him. Including lieing, misleading voters, and messing with the court system.
100% they're only concerned with keeping the base from turning on him. As long as they keep 30% believing, they’re chances of getting a favorable juror means the laws won’t matter.
Yeah sounds about right this is just another gotcha technicality. He didn’t steal these documents he was given them and just didn’t give them back on a timely manner. If anything he should get a spanking or a timeout.
Several years too late. Seems Fox Execs have realised they can't make money long term supporting 45. Too little too late. Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.
I love how Rick Grenell seems to basically think that the U.S. President is basically something like a monarch. "Who is he supposed to notify?" Like if he's basically above everything and anything, like there aren't any mechanism of supervision. Speaks volumes of how certain people think of positions of power.
Really Ironic considering during the revolutionary war(if I remember right), some suggested naming Washington "king "and he was adamantly against the idea because of how people felt about the monarchy's absolute power
@@jessekedar GOP is absolutely fine with absolute power, as long as it's their guy. They would never begin to try to apply any of their Trump apologetics to Biden or Clinton
"I have executive privilege over these documents which I declassified and were planted by the FBI." That is one hell of a sentence/defence/confession/conspiracy theory.
Well it would be, if the FBI didn't have a history of planting evidence, entrapping aids, falsifying documents, knowingly using a bought and paid for dossier manufactured by a disgraced foreign spy. have two senior agents texting back and forth about needing to take out insurance policies against him getting elected, and lying to a federal court to get permission to conduct an otherwise illegal spy and interference operation.... Neither side has any credibility.
18:01 My dad is a lawyer, has been a lawyer for almost five decades, is heavily involved with the ABA and even served a term on their board of governors a couple years back, has spent an obscene amount of time in DC as special counsel/trustee for the Eisenhower memorial project, and on top of all of that, he’s quite the scholar on American history, politics, the constitution, all that jazz. When all of this started breaking, I couldn’t wait to ask him his opinion, when I did, he gave the world’s loudest scoff and said “[Trump] has the worst lawyers. A bunch of clowns. None of them have done serious practice in years and they’re all his minions. No one that’s remotely competent will touch him with a ten foot pole.” This is very strong language from my father, who is usually infuriatingly measured and all too willing to play to the other side in every debate, (oh yeah, he was also a national collegiate debate champion in the 70s) but it was well deserved. Your comments here made me think of this exchange and I wanted to share. Thank you for the video, it was very well done and well reasoned.
"No one that’s remotely competent will touch him with a ten foot pole" - Yup, about the best advise you could give to anyone on Trump. Though the ones that need to hear this the most clearly won't be listening lol.
I don't get it. Is your dad saying that trump will be caught, bc his lawyers suck? Or is your dad saying that no one in the FBI will go after him("with a 20 foot pole")?
@@teeheee2 Even if there was ever a legally sound reason to defend Trump's various actions and take him on as a client, I can imagine competent lawyers steer clear of him because most like to actually get paid for their work.
Makes Trump's claim that he could shoot somebody and not lose a single voter even scarier. Well, at least he's not president anymore, but if he doesn't go to jail until the next US presidential election...
It kills me how Trump referred to Article II of the Constiturtion: "Then I have an Article two, where have the right to do whatever I want as President..." Wtf --- HE has an Article II? The Constitution belongs to Trump? I just re-read Article II. There is nothing in Article II that remotely suggests that the President has the right to do whatever he wants. Trump should have been impeached and removed from office just for making that statement. It shows beyond question that Trump has a construction of law that makes him a dictator.
Considering one of the questions on the US citizenship test is "what is the rule of law" and it's definitely not that, everyone who makes that claim, Nixon, Trump, and Fox guy included, should automatically lose their citizenship.
It’s almost like he’s an unreliable walking dumpster fire of a person, and has burned through every competent lawyer that might have been willing to represent him.
How can any lawyer defend a person who immediately jumps on social media, posts an unfiltered emotional rant, shoots his mouth off and incriminates himself before even hiring an attorney?
Its why they keep getting shit lawyers. Look at Jones, his legal team was so shit at their job they handed over the evidence against them they actively lied about having. Imagine being a defense lawyer who knowingly only takes on guilty clients. Thats what its like working with Republicans.
It isn't that he didn't vet his lawyers. The fact is that no lawyers worth their salt want to represent him because he doesn't pay anybody, and he is a huge PR liability, so he has to take whoever he can get.
@@azlanadil3646 I think you mean they did a 180 degree. Because a 360 degree would have them turn to trump again. Or if you prefer they could also have done a 540 degree. That too would have them turn their back on trump^^
One of the first concepts we're taught in schools when learning about how our government works is the idea of "Rule of Law," stating that no official is above the law, not even the sitting President of the United States. This concept is literally elementary level, how hard is it for them to understand that?
You're assuming people paid any attention whatsoever in school. I've lost count of the adults I've known who couldn't find America on a globe (and half a dozen who rejected the globe entirely), couldn't make change for a dollar, couldn't understand that angels/horoscopes/crystal power aren't real, couldn't read at a fourth grade level, couldn't understand their feelings and reality being two separate things, and so on. For a dismally high proportion of citizens, public education might as well have been twelve years of cartoons.
His version of declassification is that the documents are now his and he has absolute control over who can see them. It is the opposite of actual declassification.
It took 2 weeks because the search for a team of lawyers even more incompetent than the last team had to be exhausting. Just imagine thinking you have the perfect candidate and suddenly that candidate correctly identifies the building the courtroom is in.
I still have this sad feeling no one is going to pay for any crime they committed at all. Rich connected people tend to just walk away without consequences far too often for me to have any real hope here.
The problem is people keep believing the main bad guy is who all of the other bad guys say is the bad guy. Good chance Trump is a dork with a big ego who is doing things against those who truly believe they are above consequences. The fact that there was a threat to unseal the warrant and then when Trump said yeah unseal it and they were like no we can't we're not going to, what do you really really think about that behavior really really look at how that body language in your mind looks. The people doing the raid is the bad guy. They shouldn't be afraid to hide things from you they shouldn't be afraid of what popular opinion would be they're not doing it for our protection so who are they protecting? A system that's corrupt?
@@Brando23Commando because obviously it not possible for a previous presidentcy to have any affect on the current administration grow up man trump was and is a awful stupid selfish man and the fact that he literally stole documents and your still defending him means you really need to decide what your values really are man
6:58 God, I forgot about the time he crowed about “discovering” Article II of the Constitution like he was Nic Cage in National Treasure. Article II isn’t exactly secret.
You know, a lot of what I see in this entire legal system is someone always trying to argue the point of one law or one subject of law, and the problem is that the constructs of law that comprise that one subject have a much wider scope of effect, and so essentially it's like taking the bottom of an equation and complaining that what comes from it in just one section is unpleasing and so we should fix that one line of equation but when in reality the problem is higher in the equation, has a substantial effect on other non-related lower parts that indirectly balance the part you're working on, but no one uses the indirect to balance the equation and instead they leave that one section they are working on producing their favored results despite the fact that it will throw off the other half and essentially create a bubble. All of the law that is effected is not reviewed at once to balance the outcomes, as what law construction would do. Instead of actually correcting the law, they break it up, throw glue on it, and try to piece together something resembling the original construction. Instead of one case correcting many, there are many cases causing many more. This is just the highest extreme it goes, Executive authority. Executive authority essentially has no authority without all of the other authorities balancing their weight against it. Law isn't a one sided scale. That's what most people get wrong. They say, oh, I should have the right, but that's not what law is. Every right is weighed against a protection. Every privilege is weighed against an immunity. There is never a true law construction that is not counter weighed by some other equal and opposite provision. Ever. It doesn't exist. It wouldn't matter if you were nobody claiming due process rights or a President claiming Executive privilege. Each one is weighed against its equal and opposite and balanced. Your rights are weighed against the protections of others. Your privilege is weighed against the immunity of others. This really is the core of the demise of English common law. Their radicals always start with any tactic to write a one sided ledger rather than a double balance ledger with a debit and a credit system. The Monarch Form of Government is single sided. The Republican is an accounting ledger. They are some of the worst accountants in the world.
That's the secret. An accountant. He didn't actually find one, and in fact the opposite. He's as far away as he can get possible. Accountants with legal backgrounds are stronger than most standard attorneys because it is a self taught ability to factually construct law under a double balance Republican Form accounting ledger. There isn't a degree for it, and they don't teach it in law school because no one graduates law school and becomes a Justice. They don't actually have an education to be a Justice and what work product they study to become one isn't public. It's one of the only jobs in America that is more of a monopoly and a Monarchy than any other job other than being an actual royal member of the royal family.
Do you know what the one thing a Justice does than an "attorney" usually does not? What's the one code in the federal code that the ABA doesn't have jurisdiction over? Yes, the ABA claims to have jurisdiction over the entire federal code except one. The Tax Code. 26 U.S.C. An attorney doesn't work in tax court cases. That's a U.S.T.C.P. They are two totally different bars. An attorney is only authorized to practice in one state and under Amendment X. I am a paralegal by state law and authorized to practice in all 50 US states and territories. An attorney isn't allowed to do that, because they work under the ABA and only the Tax Code has a separate court. There is no degree to be a federal practitioner and practice in all 50 US states and territories. Even if you went to law school, you didn't actually learn what the bar exam is about. That would be an accountant or an accounting degree, or other executive administrative degree. The state bar doesn't have authority over the executive administrative, because their authority is judicial. A Justice has experience reviewing two branches of Government. An attorney only has experience in one. An accountant with a legal background has experience in both. He literally didn't hire anyone to represent him with an experience in the Executive branch and the practice of law to claim a right to practice under the Executive branch.
Google a double balance accounting ledger. It is a debit and credit system of accounting. You debit one side of the ledger and that credits the other side. If we weren't using the Flat Earth Theory when filing pleadings with the court in a flat language construction alone, you would be able to physiologically see what law looks like if Earth were round. You would physically see how a debit to a right credits a protection and so forth. It would all be as simple as reading year end financial records and filing your taxes. Judicial practice and judicial practitioners under a state judicial practice do not have this standard of law. They just run into the court with a quick short and brief summary of their year end financials, never having actually done any books. Why the tax court was created to emancipate slaves and not the district courts. It is a federal standard that is hidden in state and judicial practice, because of the lack of experience you actually have to have to pass a state bar exam. They are entry level practitioners. Reportably, only around 100 people are active on the federal bar who have passed the federal bar exam out of all the attorneys in America. The tax courts sort of cheat out in this concept, because the subject is accounting, but the regular courts could sure learn a lesson or two, and, for that, they are decades behind like using a Flat Earth model. You just see a sentencing running down the paper in one column like a flat Earth with one dimension. Law is factually two columns, written and read in that way. And if you wanted to be relative, it would be in 3D. If they had just advanced from the stone ages, instead of having to listen to this guy rant for an hour, we would just be reading law in a ledger and mathematically account for the law. That allows you to stop where there is an error and know where it is in the ledger, rather than just blindly hoping it was in the right place by comparing language. You hope the edge of the flat Earth isn't there, but you just really aren't sure. That might be the same language. It might not. Can you name every right that gets debited for a credit to a protection and which debit applies to which credit? Law is that simple. You can google what accounts debit and which credit in accounting, but you can't google law construction and see the same thing. Flat Earth law lacks the construction of a balanced equation.
With three strikes a poor man goes to jail for stealing a sandwich. Millions and millions of dollars are being spent to help a guilty rich man stay out of jail. This is US justice.
Issue is you are led to believe that and empirical evidence says otherwise with regard to Trump. Other politicians that you may conveniently exclude from your criticism have actively been inappropriate. Such as Hillary Clinton. It's a fact every president has done what Trump is described to have done. So either Democrat held Congress can just go ahead and try and make it a a law right now and not be awkward and sneaky about it or this whole thing is a political show meant to discredit Trump more than to find Justice. What crime did he commit? This video sure can't articulate it concisely or at all, just hearsay that what he did is similar to that of Nixon
Your point about three strikes is spot on though. We need to have laws that first and foremost apply to the people at the top and then can start applying at an equal measure to everyone else
Speaking as a lawyer with 15 years of experience, this is the best TH-cam channel ever. It saves me so much time when non-lawyer friends and family ask me about some legal news story. Instead of spending half an hour explaining things to them I can just send them a link. Thank you LegalEagle, keep up the good work.
It is important to understand/know that Justice Kavanaugh spent a lot of time after the Nixon administration working on the expansion of the President's powers. There has been a concerted effort by the right to establish the very things T**** is declaring, making these cases more important as those principles are torn down by the courts.
All you can do is imagine that, as the clip shows no such thing. It was 1 sentence without any context. Not only was it not Trump or his lawyers who made the statement but the statement is literally a fact in itself. "Nixon famously said if the president does it, It isnt illegal" . that is exactly what the clip says. All the spin is added by you and legal eagle. Its purposeful bias at least by him for his part.
@@RTaco timestamp? The only time i saw it clipped in the video here was fox and friends clip and it wasn't tucker carlson talking or was he in the clip at all. In fact i gave the exact quote of what was said in the clip.
Wasn't "if the President does it, it is not illegal" established not to be the case in Marbury v. Madison, one of the earliest and most important cases in the history of the Supreme Court?!
Not really. It established for the first time that federal courts had the power to overturn an act of Congress on the ground that it violated the U.S. Constitution. The issue revolved around William Marbury, a prominent financier and Federalist, sued Secretary of State James Madison in response to not being served his commission for justice of the peace for Washington, D.C. Marbury requested the U.S. Supreme Court issue a writ of mandamus to force Madison to deliver the commission. (A writ of mandamus is a court order for a government official to fulfill their obligation under the law.) It was power politics, start to finish. CJ Marshall wanted to expand the power of the Court and used this case as a way of doing so. By ruling that the Judiciary Act of 1789 (the basis upon which Marbury sought mandamus) Marshall implicitly gave the courts the power to decide which laws were and weren't constitutional. The actual outcome of the case isn't the important part of this (Marshall actually ruled in Jefferson's and Madison's favor), it was the way in which Marshall deftly skirted the real issue and established the doctrine of judicial review.
Every time I hear more about how stupid the legal strategy is and how bad the lawyers must be, I think about working on contract in communications for major companies. The amount of times I was told to do something ridiculous, stupid, and illegal just because they couldn't get their acts together and figure out the proper way to do it was a lot. And they would lord it over me and demand I do exactly as they said no matter how idiotic it was.
Here is the thing the lawyers that have worked with trump in the past have stated he is a difficult client to work with. He constantly wants to be a part of the strategy. Probably why the excuses keep changing. It really sounds like the lawyers he looks for are just yes men
@@blankname6629 of course he does, he's a narcissist after all. he wants to believe that he is the best at everything he does, not have people who would disagree with him ever
It's almost like the system we labor under fails utterly at putting the kinds of people we want to be in charge in positions of power. While claiming to be the best at doing that. I wonder why that might be.
The arguments to pardon trump will be stronger than the arguments to pardon Nixon (nobody was gonna riot for Nixon). But that only makes the consequences of not doing so far worse. Trump must face jail
@@brandyhuber5323 Have they actually argued it's in Biden's own interests to do so? I'd like to hear how that could be considering this is the guy who had people hold a riot to try to keep Biden out of office.
@@brandyhuber5323 We may have to deal with a self-pardon at some point, because of course he has pardoned himself. That would be unconstitutional, as it would place the President above the Law and above the two other co-equal branches of government. But with the loonies running SCOTUS, who knows what they will decide.
As a government employee who deals with classified information I can assure you that if any other government employee had ‘spilled’ (government term) this much classified material at these levels of classification they’d be well on their way to prison for the rest of their life.
sadly trump will probably get out of this without any issues like always (maybe throwing a few people under the bus along the way) and use it to further his next campaign saying he was targeted. its scary how much people that are/were president get away (while in office they are apparently untouchable if their party likes them enough and while there they get to decide who runs all the offices that might later investigate them)
For a civilian: criminal charges, arrest, no bail and eventual disposition with a long stay in a federal Grey Bar Hotel and Day Spa. For military: court martial charges, arrest, brig or stockade, no bail and a long tour of duty with MPs for company.
I really enjoy how you quickly set up and knock down the arguments. It's like a high speed legal brief. You even do the Yes, No, Probably Yes, Probably No determinations. Nice work.
I like the idea that Trump can declassify things with just his mind. Like what if he accidentally thought about declassifying the launch codes? Does that make them declassified for whatever arbitrary period of time until he thinks to reclassify them? Foreign agents could have a field day. “Don’t think about the pink elephant”
Chinese Spy: "I did not conduct espionage, the president declassified them 3 years ago with his thoughts!" Judge: "Mr president, is that true?" President: "I can not recollect every thought I had three years ago so can not refute that statement as 100% false." Judge: "In doubito pro reo, you are free to go I guess."
One problem is that even were that the case, if the process isn't followed to relabel the documents then his successor would essentially automatically reclassify them the same way. For example Biden having the thought "documents labelled classified are classified" would have reclassified the documents in Trump's possession.
Plus, if Trump can declassify documents with his mind (right before stealing them and taking them home), and if this really was a political stunt like Trump claims, couldn't Biden re-classify the documents with HIS mind right before the raid?
it is and the horrible part is that its true the US will never prosecute a president and if it comes to that i wouldn't be surprised if biden pardons trump soley because " it makes the US look bad". the United States has always been a fash hellhole
I mean its not. They have passed monarchy and other more advanced systems of government, heading for pure and simple despotism. There is no law say what the currently strongest says is law and therefore that person cannot break the law, as it exist solely by their will.
Lets just go back to 2016 words from trump, "In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information," and then "No one will be above the law"
Can you imagine saying documents were planted, FBI bad... only then to immediately turn around and say, nevermind I had them all along but I declassified them. Then the plot twist is that you're being prosecuted under the laws you've created intended for a political opponent.
I can now. I just watched it happen. Before that? No I couldn't have imagined because I thought he was actually savvy enough from a legal perspective to manipulate his decisions. Apparently, unlike the criminal organization he runs, he can't just throw everyone under him under the bus as easily. He's tried, almost to no end. Now they will just share the table.
I assure you he knows exactly what he's doing.. he's throwing shit at the wall to confuse the people, so that his followers aren't entirely sure or what the truth is but keep hearing ways it may be false. It's not about court, it's about public opinion
@@Yora21 @Yora Trump literally believe he doesnt do anything wrong. Trump claims to be a Christian. When asked by moderator Frank Lutz whether he has ever asked God for forgiveness of his actions, Trump said, “I'm not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don't think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don't bring God into that picture. I don't.”
@@_Jake.From.Statefarm_ , He was breaking the law within months of swearing he'll abide by the Constitution... the evidence was all over his twitter feed.....
As much as I like John Oliver, it didn't take any precognition. Fox News' existence is explicitly because of Watergate, and Roger Stone is the link between all of it.
If they are actually declassified, then they would be public documents and subject to a FOIA right? Wouldn’t simply filing a FOIA prove this either way?
Well, filing a FOIA request would determine whether or not the executive branch considers them classified; you'd file it and the Biden administration would tell you "absolutely not, those are super classified." The Trump camp could then say "the Biden administration is refusing to release unclassified documents, which it totally should do because Trump declassified them" or perhaps a more reasonable "well, I guess Biden decided they were classified again. Trump declassified them and now Biden reclassified them, which presidents are allowed to do." Such a request wouldn't actually yield anything of substance.
Yes, I think a very strong argument is that declassification is not for the presidents benefit but for the citizen who has and should have the opportunity to see documents when being declassified. If the president can declassify documents "in their mind" it has no benefit...
Honestly it’s bizarre to me how people are believing his defenses . Especially when they’ve literally been proven wrong years before with precedent. Either they don’t understand or they’ve not even listened to a single counter argument .
Trump's followers are incapable of logic. they have been well trained by their media to completely reject all logic. that's why none of their arguments make sense. arguments are based on logic. they are cult members
It's the Alex Jones situation all over again - where the perpetrator of these ridiculous actions has made such a mess it is literally impossible for a lawyer to defend them.
That and the lawyers seem absolutely intent on screwing their grotesquely malevolent, f@#$witted clients. Kudos if this is all the purposeful derailment of Fascist pigs.
@@justabookworm1382 He would try to speak over the judge on day one and then implicate himself without realizing it, probably while trying to represent himself since he is the best lawyer, the greatest.
I kind of picture the lawyers spending the last two weeks scouring Wikipedia for what to do next. Genuine question: DOJ responded to the motion for a special master by pointing out the lawyers signed a sworn statement that they had turned over everything. What kind of legal trouble are they potentially facing for basically lying to DOJ? Based on FBI documentation of the search and seizure, there were documents scattered all over the place, some obfuscated.
Hearing Trump supporters defend him and his statements about having unilateral authority to do anything he wants is terrifying. I don't care who you vote for--giving that much power to one single person is A VERY BAD IDEA, even if it's someone you voted for. That the "party of small government" and the party that never shuts up about how "free" this country is will so vocally support this kind of autocratic bs is chilling.
"Party of small government" and "muh freedoms" have always been a smokescreen for turning this country into their own Christian theocracy. They aren't even concerned with denying it anymore.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” (Taylor Caldwell)
Trump has certainly been the biggest traitor we’ve ever seen and has spread his treason to half the country to such a point it will continue well into the future. Worse, they believe they are the only true patriots. This is the scariest time in our country since the civil war. I’ve heard people say this my whole life, so it is a boy who cried wolf type of statement, but in my 55 years I finally think it true and this is the legacy he has left - I truly worry about the future of our nation for my grandkids.
@Mike Byrne even if either of those were true, and they’re not, they wouldn’t be treason. But attempting to subvert the election process, more than once, inciting a violent mob to take over the Capitol for the purpose of interfering with the peaceful transition of power, thereby tearing up the Constitution and forcibly keeping him in power, now those are acts of treason. And there’s really no doubt he’s done those things. That an extremely partisan Senate didn’t impeach him is meaningless.
@Mike Byrne ok. He said to stop them from certifying the election results. To stop Pence. You can try and deny it, try and rationalize all you want. But the reality is both his words and his actions that day and in the weeks and months leading up to that day showed he was doing whatever it took for him to remain in power no matter what. That is basically what you call a coup and that is treason. Worse, his actions and words leading up to that day and since have gotten a large percentage of the country in support of that coup and treason, apparently including you. You cannot support or defend him nor his actions that day and support the Constitution and if you can’t support the Constitution you can’t support America. So I am done taking with you, traitor. The lengths you people will go to defend him no matter what he does is beyond baffling. If Joe Biden or any other democrat did even one single piece of the many acts Trump has done y’all would crucify them. Just think for yourself for just a moment instead of falling for the groupthink of the party line, for once. Just for once, have an honest thought with yourself about it. I said to my wife when he was running as a candidate in 2015 that if he got the nomination he would ruin the Republican Party and if he managed to win he would ruin the nation. I have been right on both accounts. I left the party when he won the nomination because I couldn’t believe the party could fall for such an unqualified conman and I have watched the party turn into a completely intolerant group of extremist bullies with zero ideas except to push lies and conspiracy theories. It has been molded in his image, his corrupt, lying, intolerant, conspiracy loving image and it’s the saddest thing ever for this nation as now we are divided deeper than ever. Have a nice day.
16:47 Small mistake here. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 34 actually states that "If there is evidence of the existence of a subject, then there must also be adult-only materials using the likeness of the subject."
@elizabethsohler6516 sure but that's par for the course. There will always be people deeply entrenched in their beliefs, regardless of what those beliefs are. It's not worth having an existential crisis over.
I think the reason why Cheeto's attorney took so long to respond is because it took him that long to find a lawyer to represent him. Seriously, if I was a lawyer, why would I take on someone like him? He doesn't pay his bills, he lies all the time, and he has the emotional restraint of a three year old.
The likelihood of Trump running out of attorneys to work with him and representing himself, imo, is quite high, and I for one cannot wait to read his motions or watch his defense at that point.
"No, officer. You planted that merchandise on me. Besides, I paid for it in my head on my way out of the store. And even then a customer can't shoplift because the customer is always right!" (proceeds to get tased)
Trump: I. DECLARE. DECLASSIFICATION! Everyone else: You know Donald, you can't just say the word "declassification" and expect it to mean anything. Trump: I didn't say it, I declared it.
Since you like to,change the rules of what a president can an can't do because you hate the guy why not look into Delaware and Chicago or better yet Hillary took classified documents let's go and raid them shall we.
Trump is laughable. During the election he prematurely declared victory over battleground states like Pennsylvania. Did not matter that votes were still being tallied in these states- Trump saw a lead and pounced. What cracked me up was the dingus thought tweeting victory was somehow an official proclamation.
They requested a special master because one of the high profile lawyers Trump tried to hire, but who turned him down said that's what he would have done if he had taken the case.
and because it presumably opens an avenue to make the case accountable to Trump... then all they have to do is bribe or coerce the special master into releasing that nothing obtained is damning, and they can do the same shady shit they've done any time Trump has come under fire, calling the individual's character and validity into question, smearing, attacking, etc.
So, everyone here liking the comment is totally cool when the FBI raids their home and using the FBI, to filter through their belongings, to justify what the FBI needs to prosecute you? No one here would like a third party to do the filtering to ensure the legality of the search/raid? Ok.
Haha, so true. I remember hearing that guy say that and a few days later, they sent it to a judge trump picked. Too bad they filled it with the wrong court 🤣
I love when people throw around official terms inappropriately so they can manipulate those who don’t know how those things work. Totally doesn’t boil my blood
yeah. like i just got an ad before this video where the narrator said "fetterman wants to end life sentences for felony murder" while the ad displayed words about 2nd degree murder. the entire ad was bogus of course, but anyone who knows that 2nd degree murder and felony murder are two totally different things would easily see the red flags.
Something that disturbs me is the idea that law breaks down to endless subjective arguments at the highest levels. Most of these videos posit various legal implications of politicians and celebrities actions, yet we rarely seem to see any resolution. It seems that breaking the law is a very nebulous concept at that level, while the rest of us are held to vary exact standards and penalties.
Exactly why I laugh at these videos. It does not matter what this man does he will not get in any serious trouble. I will be shocked if we ever see him in cuffs for any of the various so called laws he has broken even before he became president (which is still a shock that it even happened!)
@@snieves4 The laws and governing regulations already exist. We need for those laws to be enforced. AG needs to do its job and indict and secure convictions. Take off the kid gloves.
Here's what gets me. These "top secret" documents were clearly missed immediately. And it doesn't take a stable genius to figure out where they went. And yet Trump wasn't arrested by nightfall of January 2020. He wasn't arrested a year and a half later, when they first started "looking" for them. He wasn't even arrested after they found MORE on their recent search. Tell me again how long I would have lasted in the same position.
The fact that they went, "hey can you give us these documents back and we’ll call it even” when literally anyone else holding tons of classified documents (some about NUCLEAR CODES?!)would have been pinned down SO FAST 💀💀
I've always liked your channel, but it's just been really great lately. As a practicing attorney that specializes in real estate, this is really good continuing legal education for me as people don't understand that there are specialized fields of law and I may not be up on everything in regards to the current state of the world. But now I am. Thanks man, great content!
LeftistEagle is not a good lawyer. Hes a leftist puppet. Find a real lawyer if you want objective facts about a case. Hes too coloured politically and unprofessional.
"If the president does it, it's not a crime." Oh, I'm sorry, but we live in a democratic republic, not a tin pot dictatorship. We have checks and balances on government for a reason, Mr. *Former* President, and you sir or not above the law. If you want to become a dictator, move to an abandoned oil rig to claim as sovereign territory and leave the rest of us alone
remember Billy and his classified docs in his sock drawer? Then there is Killery and her email server with 33k destroyed emails. Trump will walk as there was no crime committed. J6, Rusian collusion, blah blah blah...
However, it has been established that during their term presidents are immune to prosecution for many laws to remove the temptation of the opposition to abuse it. And normally presidents respect the law and don't break a half dozen or more before lunch.
@@macmcleod1188 That’s just the AG using prosecutorial discretion for the sake of “protecting the integrity of the office of the presidency” (how letting them get away with crimes everyone saw them commit protects integrity is beyond me) but it’s not a law or in the constitution anywhere.
@@macmcleod1188 Yes. However the key word is during their term. During their term they can't be formally charged and put in front of a civil or crimanal court. But in fact they can be prosecuted, and put in front of congress for Impeachment. And they can be put to triall after they left the office, either by finishing their term and not being reelected, or being removed by senate after impeachment procedure.
So the defenses can be summed up: "It is your fault for not reading my mind." "Here is this previous criminal that claimed it was legal." "Hey they are secret US documents, you can not take them!" "My lawyers are too bad."
One all former presents have taken classified documents off government premises. Two Trump said to his staffer that any document he takes off government premises is declasifided. This power, by just saying it, has been used by former presidents, including Brack Obama. Three, the FBI talked to Trump and told him to lock them up more while he was in the prosses of handing them over. Four, the present has preliminary authority to declassify documents; in other words, he does not have to go through a part of the executive branch with which he has delegated power to use that same power. The other branch of the executive branch gets the power to declassify documents from the president the paperwork is so the president can know about them.
@darknightoftroy They haven't been able to find any crimes that have been proven to be misinformed from the media during the January 6th hearing to convict him on treason and that that the second impeachment was about, and they could not convict him on anything like that. So no, he has committed treason if he had they would have been able to remove him from office in the second impeachment trial.
@@jamescox2894 And what if anything will come of it is an entirely separate question from his excuses and who believes them. That you are conflating the two… well. I can see why you would be the sort to fall for him
@@Time_Is_Left - His base is legitimately enthralled enough to fall for it. Look at his defenders in the comments on this video. Honestly, history makes a lot more sense than it used to. People love kings, autocrats, and dictators.
The chef's kiss level of irony in all this is that if he's prosecuted the penalties he'll face were put in place by a law he signed in his first year of office. Those "lock her up" chants did not age well for him. don't get me wrong. I'm not a fan nor defending either of them. I'm just a fan of irony.
There's arguments to be made about a lot of former presidents having done stuff that should put them in jail, but with Trump there's some many things I wouldn't even know where to start.
@@meneldal I'm sure your right. However, I doubt any president has had this many documents with national security implications locked in their closet after he left office. After all the talk from Trump and then signing a law that includes stiffer penalties for mishandling documents, he goes and commits the same crime. If this was a movie Hollywood made up it would get poor reviews. People would say, "that movie sucked. No one would be that stupid."
@@btbarr16 Yes I was listening to a radio program where some professional writers were discussing how bad a story the President Former Guy administration would be because of the "idiot plot" which is bad writing. They explained that an "idiot plot" is when a story would fall apart if one character would simply stop being an idiot.
I think we're all just fed up with politicians getting away with a lower standard of ethics/actions, while having more legal "courtesies" and a higher quality of life.
I keep hearing the same thing over and over if you're going to blame somebody why don't you put some real names up I can say several of them most of them are Republican party and there may be a couple Democrats as well but I keep saying most of Congress there's some very good people in Congress and I voted for them and there's some horrible people in Congress Taylor green Matt gets Lauren bobert Mitch McConnell Rand Paul Ted Cruz for example I'm voice texting so forgive me for any spelling errors so like I said give us some names maybe agree with the ones I put up maybe you don't
Ah, the classic "You can't hit me because I have an everything proof force shield" defence, often seen on school play grounds. Let's see how this works out for him.
To stay safe, the people really do need some top secret information to remain classified. When someone keeps spilling classified information that could get people killed, to leaders of unfriendly countries and random visitors, at what point can we stop wondering why they did it, and start focusing on making sure that they can't do it anymore?
It's not just the "unfriendly" nations which are interested in learning what's in the TS documents. It's our Allies too. Why? Because they want to know how much of what they have shared with the US is now flying around in the world that comes back to bite THEM. What is their justified reaction to the news? "Button up everything! Nothing goes to the Americans! They are not trustworthy to keep our information secret and they are not trustworthy in terms of what they share with us as reliable either. We need to rely on our other sources and keep the US at bay."
The intelligence the President gets is not direct source info. Do you seriously think the names of spies and technical nuclear weapon information is just sitting around on a piece of paper?
I was astonished you ever elected him in the first place, but even writing that off as a really bad mistake, The fact that even now with his track record , there are still people willing to tie them selves in knots trying to defend him is mind boggling to me.
American right-wingers are slaves to their own tribal pride. It sucks them in like a black hole's event horizon, causing them to go wherever the tribe decrees -- purported principles be damned.
Trump insulted Ted Cruz's wife, defamed his dad, called Ted sh1t. In turn, Ted called potential voters for Trump, didn't defend his wife, and went along with the insults to his dad and himself. His kneeling in front of 🍊 has to hurt!
@@pamelacass9642 you forget this is also the same man who tried to leave Texas during that snowstorm to Cancun and when caught, blamed his daughters, saying it was their idea. Ted is a weasel.
@@maybemablemaples2144 The picture of sad Ted Cruz making calls for trump always brightens my day. He just looks so defeated, and frankly he deserves it.
It totally cracked me up when he claimed that those documents were subject to Executive Privilege. I'm not a lawyer, but even I understood immediately that if this was actually true, then all those documents pretty much "belong" to Joe Biden. I also sensed that it was a confession, which Legal Eagle just confirmed. But can we take a moment to savor how mad Trump would be if he had to hear from one of his lawyers what he had just publicly admitted?
Except it doesn't look like he will have to hear that from one of his lawyers, because they are apparently as dumb as him, putting confessions in their own filings.
Well, I'm afraid the problem there is that Trump has his own reality. He seems to believe that he is still President, at least he still calls himself that.
You are presuming he did something wrong. Even in this video, after you remove implication, there is no clear statement of wrong doing that Trump is spefically accused of. Unless i paused and accidently skipped it. I get called a Trump supporter for not trusting politics... I have yet to hear definatively that he failed to follow proper proceedure. Always, maybe, and then this nixon stuff. Trump can call himself emperior of the moon, but is it illegal...
Interesting how filing in a wrong court can get you stuck being ordered to do more lawyer work, which isn't free. Can a lawyer respond with a very quick "mea culpa" response or are they on the hook for explaining all of that while trying not to look bad?
They can file a motion saying they filed their first motion incorrectly and request a dismissal of the case. The judge can also choose to sanction them for it or not.
Classic Narcissistic Sociopath Defence. I was never at the scene of the crime, and if I was I didn't do anything wrong, and if i did, other people have done worse
I have thought for years that any elected official (President, Senator, House Rep, etc…) should have less right to privacy than the average citizen, not more.
The full version of these videos should not be hidden behind a paywall for Nebula or anything else - they need to be public. The information, analysis, and insight you provide should be available to everyone.
He was a fraud before taking office, a fraud while in office, and will be a fraud now that he's out of office. Main difference now is that the American People get to pick up the tab for the lovely pension that all of his friends and family now receive. Isn't "Democracy" great?
Also also Dump: "There's this thing called Two Articles; it says I can do whatever I want. But I don't talk about that." People with brains: "Dude, you're literally talking about it right friggin now."
Apparently President Trump is above the law, but Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden, neither of which have the defenses available to a President, are. James Comey made an excellent opening statement for a criminal trial of Hillary just before indicating that it will never happen. I remember when I was told when I was employed by the federal government that official government emails are only allowed to be sent through government email servers. There is a reason for that.
As a non- US citizen, I find it disturbing and concerning how little discussion I see in US online media about international consequences this whole affair has for the US. There seems to be little thought not only to how impacts US security and even less on how allies, rivals or even enemies react to this. I can only assume that for example the French are not happy about files on their president and even less if existing ones are not secure…
This comes as no surprise to other world leaders. They all have their own dossiers on everyone else. "Allies" just means a friend of current convenience.
How does outrageous conduct by the FBI doing a pretextual raid of the residence of a former President affect you? Everything the former President had were things he had legal access to and they were all securely stored and protected by the Secret Service. There was an administrative dispute about custody of documents, especially considering that the FBI was apparently improperly accessing documents to which they were not supposed to be privy.
The problem is that, what he has is unknown. So no one knows how it affects our international partners just yet. The hope is not at all, but the reality is probably more than what anyone wants to hear.
My favorite "defense" is that the reason he took and then kept the documents is that he wanted to use the contents of those documents to write and then publish a book. You know what is even worse than taking ts:sci documents and refusing to return them? Distributing ts:sci documents
You mean have a book ghostwritten for him like his The Art of the Deal book, probably doesn't follow an eighth of what was written in it. A true book written by him would be called The Art of Bankruptcy and the Swindle...lol
Don't we have someone that's in literal exile for publishing not even top secret but just "sensitive" material to the public? They weren't even doing it to make a profit.
@@eduardocruz4341 The ghostwriter for “The Art of the Deal,” Tony Schwartz, said in 2020 that his biggest regret was writing that book,” and “I have never felt more frightened by Trump and his enablers than I do today. He is completely unmoored from reality, in full gaslighting mode & willing to say anything to survive, even if it kills us.”
Good breakdown and best background I've seen. One miss was the seizure of mixed materials in the boxes is not only common but any item such as utility bills, rent receipts of papers with signatures are evidence of access or control of the location where the items covered by the warrant were found. In this case involving government documents including classified ones it speaks to the conditions in which they were stored.
I picture open folders sitting on his coffee table with a roomful of house guests in attendance. I picture Trump reading the contents aloud to all present, just for a gas.
Nixon was never convicted or charged with any crime. He was going to be removed from office and that would have been the end of the matter if he hadn't stepped down as that is the only power that the legislature has over a president. What is happening now is unprecedented. People that hate Trump simply just don't care.
You know that you're in a deep hole when you invoke Nixon's ghost,saying,in essence,if the President who was chased out of the presidency did it,then,I can do it.
the sad thing is if we had the Nixon era Republicans in Congress Trump would have had to resign. The current day GOP just enabled him and continues to.
@darknightoftroy (can't read your comments in the thread, only in the notifications for some reason) but I'll just say the closest there was to Trump back in the day was George Wallace. What wouldn't play then plays now for the cult.
you can not have it both ways. either it is declassified - then everyone is allowed to see it, it is still not owned by trump . or it is classified, then we AND he is not allowed to read it, still, he is not owning anything.
21:40 The letter was not released to help Trump legally because the actual court case is already effectively over if he's ever prosecuted under the Espionage Act. The letter from NARA was released to fight in the court of public opinion, to rile up his base (who will see literally anything that Trump releases as good for him, regardless of content or context), and to implicitly threaten prosecutors with civil unrest if they prosecute. You'd know better than me, but I get the impression that there's literally no legal defense for what Trump has done if he's actually be prosecuted for it, so he's doing everything he can think of to avoid prosecution. Aside from cooperating, of course.
Imagine a duly-licensed physician sees a patient in the hospital and decides to change the patient’s medication orders. The physician has clear authority to do so……But, our physician tells no one. No written, verbal, or electronic communication to anyone. Naturally, the pharmacy and nursing staff will continue medications under the most recent valid orders. A five year-old can see just how stupid this is, and how stupid Trump’s excuse is.
@@catholicdad That is a direct analogue to one of trump's arguments. People have _TRIED_ constructing strawmen to represent trump and his compatriots. It doesn't work because they're fake beyond conception.
@@catholicdad isn’t that the argument? That Trump decided that they should be declassified and therefore they should be treated as if they are? If I’m wrong feel free to correct me.
Why? They picked a side, they picked a client knowing full well what kind of person he is. They made their bed knowing full well it was full of tacks and nails, and got in it anyway.
Another concern is how many documents tfg (or more likely his subordiantes) looked through in the vaults to find what he/they wanted to keep. His whole term was about information gathering. There is only one reason for that. To control said information. But considering how pathetically unintelligent tfg is then who of those close to him would know how best to benefit from the intel? We haven't heard those names yet and yet TS literature is still missing from the archive manifest. This is literally, from a security perspective, a worse-case scenario.
As a former holder of a TS/SCI clearance, I can speak with knowledge in this. It doesn't matter one bit what someone says including the president. You follow whatever the document is marked. If it says TS, it's treated as TS, period.
Except when the ex-'president' walks out of the White House with said documents in a box and takes them to his private residence and does god only knows what with them before he's found out.
I’m so glad you exist Legal Eagle. I really appreciate you making this, the effort you’ve put in, and you making the law (and current events with the law) more approachable and tangible is so important for the people! Thank you 🙏🏾
In the movie Dragon Heart, when talking about the Medieval code(which is basically the law), there is a line saying; "Nobody is above the Code, especially not the king." It was such a huge mistake to allow Trump to occupy the White House, a mistake that should and can never be made again.
I'm honestly concerned that if Trump is convicted, his cultists might actually start a civil war over that asshole. Like... I saw 1/6/21, Those people are F'ing insane. Honestly... The best thing that could happen for the country would be for Trump to have a massive stroke. LIke a: in a powered wheelchair, can't talk, eating through a straw, blanket over the knees - stroke. He'd still be around so he wouldn't be a martyr for his followers, but... that head would be removed from the snake.
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Hey, can you do a video on Business Casual suing TH-cam? I would love to see your take on that situation.
The silly excuses of Trump seem like a deliberate concerted attempt to taint potential jurors.
I imagine this is keeping you quite busy.
That makes sense, thank you
It's quite impressive that someone can quote Richard Nixon with a straight face and claim that 'Nixon said what I do is legal'.
I disagree: lack of morals isn't a chore.
Many individuals on the right still believe that Nixon was in the right and was a good person/president.
Hey, at least Nixon resigned.
whats truly impressive is that no one seems to notice Watergate happening again in front of our faces
When you're a Faux Snooze gasbag, you say what they pay you to say - and if you can't do it with a straight face they'll get somebody else to say it.
“But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
I will never not upvote a Pratchett quote.
Genuine question - is there a joke/irony in here or am I reading into it? At the end of the day, the height of the gallows makes no difference in a hanging, and results in the same punishment. So higher gallows only passes as a worse punishment to onlookers, but in fact makes no difference
@@markymark1256 no clue if this is not necessarily true but I think Pratchet here is talking about the wealthy man's gallows being smaller than the poor man's, therefore not killing them for things a poorer man would be.
@@markymark1256 You're reading into it, I think - or rather, that's kinda their point. The character is asking what the punishment should be for a crime that significant. They're pointing out the injustice that being poor is almost a crime unto itself, while the rich and powerful cause harm every day for no reason other than greed, and often escape punishment because they go to the same country club as the DA. If things were equal, the punishment for the latter would be so much worse than what the poor man suffers, and yet there is no way for that to be possible, because no matter how high the gallows, everyone's just received the punishment of death... there is no way to achieve true justice here, and all things aren't equal, and the rich man will escape the punishment the poor man would receive. I wish I could remember what character it was. It feels like a Vetinari line but he's a man who throws mimes in a scorpion pit, so.
@@awokentotime7157 When I read Snuff, the quoted section left me with the impression that if a year is fair punishment for the poor person stealing out of necessity, then the punishment for someone breaking the law because of greed would have to be significantly worse. So, if for example hanging a man for negligence would mean a 10 foot drop maybe mass murder would grant a 200 foot drop. This would make the hanging (or falling) period, and therefore the punishment, last longer for the condemned.
It's been a long time since I read the book though and from the quote it can easily be inferred in the way that @AwokenToTime has so without going back to the source and confirming the context it's hard to say with certainty, and even then it might remain ambiguous.
If anything, our elected officials should be held to a HIGHER standard of ethics than the average citizen.
The idea that any single person, even the president, can unilaterally declassify anything they want to, with no witnesses or officiation, is a completely ridiculous notion.
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Why, they and their donors own everything. Why would they care about ethics when there are no consequences to their actions?
there have been so many ridiculous things that donald trump has done while in office that have gone unpunished or only a slap on the wrist. It's just so draining seeing people get away with things that would ruin almost anyone else's life just because they're famous and influential
@@02smithm1 Legal Eagle becomes more and more of a News-Dude,
but he cant replace "Some More News".
Well said!
I'm reminded of a scene from the film 'Liar Liar':
*Fletcher:* Your Honor, I object!
*Judge:* And why is that, Mr Reede?
*Fletcher:* Because it's _devastating_ to my case!
*Judge:* Overruled...
GOOD CALL!
I'm impressed that you remember the characters name
Huh, that’s shocking to hear. And true. 😬 🤦🏼♀️
Well, when you refuse to pay your GOOD lawyers, they drop you as a client. Then, you're left with the B-Team. In this case, I think Trump's down to the Z-Team.
Is Z for Zero?
I think at this point we've run out of alphabets and have to use African click sound symbols.
in sweden, after Z there is ÅÄÖ as well, so the Ö-team! funnily enough, Ö is also a single letter word which means "island", which he might have to escape to in order to avoid jail time
@@Vesperitis if you ran out of alphabets, you can always use another one, like after Z, use AA, AB, etc
Trump must be going for the "lowest of the low class lawyers", where they barely passed law school and didn't deserve it because he got lucky.
And the troubling thing about that is Trump would have a MUCH better chance of getting away with this whole thing if he just had a bit more money and could afford to pay his bills
Wait, you mean to tell me that a man famous for throwing people under the bus and not paying bills might not be able to hire the finest lawyers available? I. Am. Shocked.
Taxation is theft
Shocked, I tell you!
Because law firms are being instructed not to represent Trump, lawyers who want to represent Trump are told they will be fired.
Inconceivable!
You got that wrong. "Hire" is not the correct word because they don't get paid. Just ask Giuliani.
What bothers me the most about this entire fiasco, is the flippant disrespect towards our legal system and laws set in place. It bothers me that as an average citizen, I could never get away with any of this, but once a man becomes president all of a sudden they’re lord of the country, it’s just weird.
Not just the president, his grifting circle committed criminal acts too.
$$$$ talks, add partisan politics and decent lawyers (while he was in the White House) and of course he would get away with things.
The lawyers and partisan politics saved him the 1st time
Partisan politics saved him the 2nd.
He keeps losing lawyers each time and other attorneys don't want to touch the case.
Its super weird. And his supporters, act like he is jesus born again... its just gross
Bingo. Very good point.
@@GathClips They're a regular Jonestown aren't they
Trump’s policy is Schrodinger’s declassification - all documents are both classified and declassified until Trump checks what the document is and decides whether it is classified or declassified.
Quantum sciences reference- Schrodinger’s Cat to be precise. 😂🤣
@@worldsfunniestvideosandbes3684a useless mental exercise!🙄
"He's the president, laws don't need to apply to him" is actually deranged, and they are just publicly saying it. What the hell?
Edit: Wow, so many people in the comments don't understand that saying "If the president does it, it's not illegal" means the same as "he can break laws" Both mean the laws don't apply to him. Literacy and language comprehension has gone really down. And some just didn't watch the video and pretend nobody ever said that.
Listen, whoever you are, I believe that anyone can learn and get better. Don't blindly believe everything someone says. Take a step back and think a bit, maybe you're not always right. Don't be that guy who calls everyone who disagrees with you a zealot, dehumanizing people with opposing views is a step backwards.
The whole party has outright hated America since the 70s. Every single republican would harvest your organs without so much as anesthetics if they could get away with it.
To say our Founding Fathers "must be rolling in their graves" would be the understatement of the century.
Because it's not about whether he did something bad. They just want an excuse to think it's okay. Sure he kept nuclear secrets in his vacation basement but it's fine because he declassified them so that means they're harmless. Oh and the FBI planted them so they're the ones who planted extremly harmful documents in his home
Point?
Who said what you're claiming?
No one has said that but you. They're saying the POTUS has unilateral authority to declass materials and they do.
The defenders simultaneously want less government power while saying stuff like 'the president can declassify documents with his mind' and 'if the president does it, it is not illegal'
How does that make any sense
It does not. Trump just gave Biden more power with his statements.
Because they want a king who agrees with them and doesn't let the 'wrong people' have a say in government
How does it make sense for the head of the military to be the final word on how things are classified? Hmmm. I wonder. There really is no debate. This issue has already been settled in court. Bill Clinton brought home documents that they claimed he shouldn't have. The courts decided that he had that power as the president.
Less government power to do what? Your answer is in the answer to that question
@@lukewest7216 Kings actually have to follow the laws of their land or face things like coups and excommunication.
"Who would he notify?" It is often important to remember that the President is NOT at the top of the food chain. He is an employee of the American people.
And only one third of the co-equal branches of our government.
That shit is brain dead. How do you not know who to notify? That's the first thing you ask when you start a new job. "Who do I give this paper work to?"
Yeah, as much as, I as a citizen pays for the same cops that arrest me.
If you really believe that, try firing one, or better yet go to a PD and try to file a complaint.
@@erisgh0sted961 The point that the president has to answer to people is still true even if the saying "he is an employee of the people" is not literally true
But...paying for them is not employing them. Your comparison is dim-witted and obviously flawed. You ignored more recent and more accurate comments and did not even try to compare to a sheriff specifically, who can also be elected at least.
@@erisgh0sted961 One random asshole can't fire a cop, but enough political pressure can. Consider Pete Arredondo.
When a conservative claims to be about smaller, less powerful federal government but argues near limitless power for the president in the same breath ... scratch a conservative and a monarchist bleeds.
*fascist
@@koboldparty4708 scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds, but this is more a Tory sensibility.
Don't lump these duplicitous turds in with Bonnie Prince Charlie.
@@Tophergr8come now, which political movement has been coopted by religious extremism and rampant nationalism?
Imagine being a thief with a sense of entitlement so vast that after you're caught with stolen items you demand them back just because you think you own everything by mere thought.
Then you have the thief and his friend saying that he deserves to keep the stolen items as a reward for stopping the items from being stolen by someone else(who doesn't exist)
Or at least did when you took it.
Yeah . . . Imagine.
You do a lot of that I'm guessing.
So, who exactly are you talking about?
@@catholicdad Trump.
I'm confused, are you talking about Trump or the average BLM looter?
Ah what am I saying, there's not really a difference at the end of the day. Both have completely lost the plot, both are horribly racist and both should be kept far away from power or influence, and not be left unattended in a room with any women, children or small animals.
Fun fact: when you are known to throw your lawyers under the bus (re: get them sent to prison), you're not going to be able to retain the best legal help.
Yeah, he's down to the "parking ticket" level of lawyers... But they are the most amazing ticket lawyers ever!!!
Especially when he keeps perpetrating himself. Feels very Alex Jones atm
And not paying them?
@@markkalzer907 Forgot about that. Yeah. He's at the Lionel Hutz level now.
@@VulcanLogic I believe Lionel Hutz requires payment upfront
"Unitary President."
"Anything the President does is legal."
"He declared it in his head."
Mfer this sounds like the Prince of Egypt.
"I am the morning and evening star, I AM the Pharoah. My word is the truth!"
Like deadass.
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Next he will argue the right of kings anointed by God.
@@katiehettinger7857 "your honor, have you considered that my conviction will result in pestilence and plague ravaging the lands on a scale unimaginable by mortal men?"
He followed the law, just like Bill Clinton did and then Judge Jackson ruled. You guys are so ignorant and yet judge like you know everything.
@darknightoftroy Exactly. Ensuring that no single personal could act as a sovereign monarch/dictator was pretty much the MAIN focus when setting up our government.
@@rheawelsh4142 Well, they're not wrong.
-QAnon
-The current state of the Republican Party as a whole.
-The almost weaponized state of several denominations of the Christian Faith.
This reminds me so much of playing Dungeons and Dragons as a teen and there was always that one player who, when suffering catastrophic damage from some monster, tried to claim that they would naturally have cast a protection spell before entering the room with the deadly monster, and demands the Dungeon Master allow that retroactive spell casting.
"I may be stupid, but let's assume my character isn't."
@@Snacks256 … you know I can’t even be mad at that statement because I’ve said that. Not for combat but because I’m a terrible note taker with a bad memory (I’m trying to get better) so I wouldn’t remember much of last session and my notes ain’t helping.
As you can guess I play characters with slight memory problems because I have memory problems lol
If D&D played like a series of perfect heist double crosses it'd be a nightmare.
i usually allow something like this but for the price of an increased CR for that encounter. That usually shuts up complaints like this pretty quickly.
@@tranquilthoughts7233
Good idea but it usually punishes the party, what i do is secretly reroll the attack with advantage and max damage it
Hurts just one player and the player that deserves it
As a former Fed, I often dealt with sensitive and confidential information. While I sometimes dealt with secret information, I very very seldom saw anything marked top secret, and only ONCE in ten years saw a top secret (sci ?) folder with my own name written on the outside control sheet (giving me permission to open and read inside the folder, only inside a properly SECURED space). None of these documents were treated in a cavalier fashion; there are specific rules and procedures that MUST be followed in how each level of classification is handled. I don't give a damn how famous he was or what position he held: Trump must be held accountable for his serious violations of trust.
Spoiler alert: he won't be. Laws are only for the unprivileged class.
I'm curious. Since you have first hand experience. On those confidential folders, are they secured shut in any way? Like, are they just like one of those manila envelopes with the little string fasteners, or is there some kind of clip to keep it from acidentally falling open during transport, or someone "sneaking a peak" while it sits on a desk" or something?
Just curious.
Yeah ts:sci documents are no joke,
The reason the classification is important goes well beyond "this is how we get him"
It's actualy a massive security breach that they even managed to exit the secure location they were stored to get to mara Lago, much less how horribly mishandled they were and how God knows what could have fallen into the hands of God knows who
@@VeryDeathlyShiny I do not have first hand experience, but it is my understanding that these documents are never meant to leave secure locations where they're properly looked after. So it would never just be sitting on a desk where someone could "sneak a peak", and I'm sure it would be well protected if it needed to be transferred to another secure location.
Allow me to finish your comment: Violations of trust . . . created entirely by a biased media and accepted by those who view information superficially.
Let me ask you, as a former DOE Records Officer: What exactly did Trump do wrong? Is there a formal charge I'm unaware of or is all this frenetic activity merely speculation (like the collusion delusion).?
I'm starting to suspect that to some degree the bad lawyering is "intentional", with the rationale that since their case is probably lost on the factual front, they can only keep power on the narrative perceived by their base to whom all the various courts' replies probably sound like "technicalities" and "legal mumbo-jumbo". From this perspective, deliberately building bad defenses and baseless arguments to elicit even more responses mired in technical discussions could appear to "confirm", to the eyes of layman voters, the typical narrative of shadowy political enemies fighting dirty with red-tape arguments that don't confront any "real issues". We could then be looking at yet again another "double reality" situation where people with a firmer grasp of legal proceedings (and especially their rationale and meaning) are baffled and outraged at these nonsensical shenanigans, while other people are convinced they are witnessing some sort of dystopian bureaucrats distorting the law to attempt some kind of political attack. If any of my conjectures are even a bit right, it would be important to not just talk about the technical issues (though that's still necessary and important), but also to try and dismantle these kinds of narratives.
Yeah, I have a budding concern they want to drag this out into the next election cycle and use it as a wedge issue.
This, absolutely this and nothing else. You hit the nail on the head and there is nothing else to be said.
As monty Python put it "Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses" and they are trying to win over the masses while disregarding any rules or checks and balances put to regulate said executive power.
That has been his action for quite some time now. As long as he can keep shifting the narrative, nothing sticks around long enough to convince his followers of his guilt. And as long as he holds the power over voters, the Republican party will do anything in their power to look like they are helping him. Including lieing, misleading voters, and messing with the court system.
100% they're only concerned with keeping the base from turning on him. As long as they keep 30% believing, they’re chances of getting a favorable juror means the laws won’t matter.
Yeah sounds about right this is just another gotcha technicality. He didn’t steal these documents he was given them and just didn’t give them back on a timely manner. If anything he should get a spanking or a timeout.
I love that Fox is now comparing Trump to Nixon, starting with that quote. A truly great comparison.
Several years too late. Seems Fox Execs have realised they can't make money long term supporting 45. Too little too late.
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@@rnpee Religious outcasts and criminals fled European countries to the colonies and not much is different.
And the whole world knows he is crooked.... So compare Nixon to Trump.... Fox news lost their minds.
But don't you know that if you strip away all the shell companies you'll find that Trump owns Fox News that's why they're always on his side
I love how Rick Grenell seems to basically think that the U.S. President is basically something like a monarch.
"Who is he supposed to notify?" Like if he's basically above everything and anything, like there aren't any mechanism of supervision. Speaks volumes of how certain people think of positions of power.
Really Ironic considering during the revolutionary war(if I remember right), some suggested naming Washington "king "and he was adamantly against the idea because of how people felt about the monarchy's absolute power
@@jessekedar GOP is absolutely fine with absolute power, as long as it's their guy. They would never begin to try to apply any of their Trump apologetics to Biden or Clinton
@@jessekedar YOU ARE CORRECT!
@@kcrknp You're so right! The Democrats set a fine example of governance.
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How they view republicans in power. It's very important with oversight and scandal when democrats do it.
"I have executive privilege over these documents which I declassified and were planted by the FBI."
That is one hell of a sentence/defence/confession/conspiracy theory.
don't forget also "Barack *Hussein* Obama also took nuclear docs home!" (fact check: obviously, Obama did not take classified docs home)
In real time he is sussy baka self reporting.
Well it would be, if the FBI didn't have a history of planting evidence, entrapping aids, falsifying documents, knowingly using a bought and paid for dossier manufactured by a disgraced foreign spy. have two senior agents texting back and forth about needing to take out insurance policies against him getting elected, and lying to a federal court to get permission to conduct an otherwise illegal spy and interference operation....
Neither side has any credibility.
Whatever may stick he will throw it
@@maybemablemaples2144 disgusting zoomer
18:01 My dad is a lawyer, has been a lawyer for almost five decades, is heavily involved with the ABA and even served a term on their board of governors a couple years back, has spent an obscene amount of time in DC as special counsel/trustee for the Eisenhower memorial project, and on top of all of that, he’s quite the scholar on American history, politics, the constitution, all that jazz. When all of this started breaking, I couldn’t wait to ask him his opinion, when I did, he gave the world’s loudest scoff and said “[Trump] has the worst lawyers. A bunch of clowns. None of them have done serious practice in years and they’re all his minions. No one that’s remotely competent will touch him with a ten foot pole.” This is very strong language from my father, who is usually infuriatingly measured and all too willing to play to the other side in every debate, (oh yeah, he was also a national collegiate debate champion in the 70s) but it was well deserved. Your comments here made me think of this exchange and I wanted to share. Thank you for the video, it was very well done and well reasoned.
He is not the only one who shares that opinion.
"No one that’s remotely competent will touch him with a ten foot pole" - Yup, about the best advise you could give to anyone on Trump. Though the ones that need to hear this the most clearly won't be listening lol.
I don't get it. Is your dad saying that trump will be caught, bc his lawyers suck?
Or is your dad saying that no one in the FBI will go after him("with a 20 foot pole")?
@@teeheee2 Even if there was ever a legally sound reason to defend Trump's various actions and take him on as a client, I can imagine competent lawyers steer clear of him because most like to actually get paid for their work.
@@ladygrndr9424 Pffffffffff his stupid social media app just got busted for not paying it's bills. So true Lady Gmdr. So true!!
"If the President does it, then it isn't illegal" is one of the scariest things I've ever heard.
Makes Trump's claim that he could shoot somebody and not lose a single voter even scarier. Well, at least he's not president anymore, but if he doesn't go to jail until the next US presidential election...
If you want to torture and kill someone, just become president! You can show it on live TV and you'll face no consequences! yay!
It kills me how Trump referred to Article II of the Constiturtion: "Then I have an Article two, where have the right to do whatever I want as President..." Wtf --- HE has an Article II? The Constitution belongs to Trump? I just re-read Article II. There is nothing in Article II that remotely suggests that the President has the right to do whatever he wants. Trump should have been impeached and removed from office just for making that statement. It shows beyond question that Trump has a construction of law that makes him a dictator.
Considering one of the questions on the US citizenship test is "what is the rule of law" and it's definitely not that, everyone who makes that claim, Nixon, Trump, and Fox guy included, should automatically lose their citizenship.
If the judge arrests you it is not illegal either.
It’s almost like he’s an unreliable walking dumpster fire of a person, and has burned through every competent lawyer that might have been willing to represent him.
How can any lawyer defend a person who immediately jumps on social media, posts an unfiltered emotional rant, shoots his mouth off and incriminates himself before even hiring an attorney?
Its why they keep getting shit lawyers. Look at Jones, his legal team was so shit at their job they handed over the evidence against them they actively lied about having.
Imagine being a defense lawyer who knowingly only takes on guilty clients. Thats what its like working with Republicans.
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I'm sure money will sooth most things, including any misgivings the lawyers may have 👀
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It isn't that he didn't vet his lawyers. The fact is that no lawyers worth their salt want to represent him because he doesn't pay anybody, and he is a huge PR liability, so he has to take whoever he can get.
I'd also add that for a trump lawyer loyalty to Trump is a much more important qualifier than skill.
@@tranquilthoughts7233His, his lawyers turned 360 degrees and walked out when they saw the suit.
@@azlanadil3646 I think you mean they did a 180 degree. Because a 360 degree would have them turn to trump again. Or if you prefer they could also have done a 540 degree. That too would have them turn their back on trump^^
@@tranquilthoughts7233 This guy doesn't Chris Chan.
how does the phrase "If the President does it, then it isn't illegal" not come across as a red flag to some people??
Like, I don't care who you are, that should be a huge red flag.
It's bc they're bootlickers tbh
Trump's followers are a cult. They don't listen to reason, like all zealots.
Right Wing voters are not smart people.
Talk of a "dictator "
One of the first concepts we're taught in schools when learning about how our government works is the idea of "Rule of Law," stating that no official is above the law, not even the sitting President of the United States. This concept is literally elementary level, how hard is it for them to understand that?
Trump is a dictator to these people. They want fascism.
You're assuming people paid any attention whatsoever in school. I've lost count of the adults I've known who couldn't find America on a globe (and half a dozen who rejected the globe entirely), couldn't make change for a dollar, couldn't understand that angels/horoscopes/crystal power aren't real, couldn't read at a fourth grade level, couldn't understand their feelings and reality being two separate things, and so on. For a dismally high proportion of citizens, public education might as well have been twelve years of cartoons.
His version of declassification is that the documents are now his and he has absolute control over who can see them. It is the opposite of actual declassification.
Yep. It's called espionage.
Ah, the infamous “Finder’s Keepers!” doctrine
It took 2 weeks because the search for a team of lawyers even more incompetent than the last team had to be exhausting. Just imagine thinking you have the perfect candidate and suddenly that candidate correctly identifies the building the courtroom is in.
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It took 2 weeks because lawyers want to be paid. Trump stiffs everyone. I’m sure his moronic followers would donate to his legal defense fund.
He should hire the lawyer that Alex Jones used...
@@TheRealScooterGuy if only we could get peak content like that.
DJT hired Charlie's Angels attorneys cuz they look "hot",
not for any legal eagle ability.
I still have this sad feeling no one is going to pay for any crime they committed at all. Rich connected people tend to just walk away without consequences far too often for me to have any real hope here.
A wise man once said in the darkest times, hope is something we give ourselves
The problem is people keep believing the main bad guy is who all of the other bad guys say is the bad guy. Good chance Trump is a dork with a big ego who is doing things against those who truly believe they are above consequences. The fact that there was a threat to unseal the warrant and then when Trump said yeah unseal it and they were like no we can't we're not going to, what do you really really think about that behavior really really look at how that body language in your mind looks. The people doing the raid is the bad guy. They shouldn't be afraid to hide things from you they shouldn't be afraid of what popular opinion would be they're not doing it for our protection so who are they protecting? A system that's corrupt?
Honestly, same.
@@AstralMarmot Iroh, avatar the last air bender
@@Brando23Commando because obviously it not possible for a previous presidentcy to have any affect on the current administration grow up man trump was and is a awful stupid selfish man and the fact that he literally stole documents and your still defending him means you really need to decide what your values really are man
6:58 God, I forgot about the time he crowed about “discovering” Article II of the Constitution like he was Nic Cage in National Treasure. Article II isn’t exactly secret.
it was a secret... to him
You know, a lot of what I see in this entire legal system is someone always trying to argue the point of one law or one subject of law, and the problem is that the constructs of law that comprise that one subject have a much wider scope of effect, and so essentially it's like taking the bottom of an equation and complaining that what comes from it in just one section is unpleasing and so we should fix that one line of equation but when in reality the problem is higher in the equation, has a substantial effect on other non-related lower parts that indirectly balance the part you're working on, but no one uses the indirect to balance the equation and instead they leave that one section they are working on producing their favored results despite the fact that it will throw off the other half and essentially create a bubble. All of the law that is effected is not reviewed at once to balance the outcomes, as what law construction would do. Instead of actually correcting the law, they break it up, throw glue on it, and try to piece together something resembling the original construction. Instead of one case correcting many, there are many cases causing many more. This is just the highest extreme it goes, Executive authority. Executive authority essentially has no authority without all of the other authorities balancing their weight against it. Law isn't a one sided scale. That's what most people get wrong. They say, oh, I should have the right, but that's not what law is. Every right is weighed against a protection. Every privilege is weighed against an immunity. There is never a true law construction that is not counter weighed by some other equal and opposite provision. Ever. It doesn't exist. It wouldn't matter if you were nobody claiming due process rights or a President claiming Executive privilege. Each one is weighed against its equal and opposite and balanced. Your rights are weighed against the protections of others. Your privilege is weighed against the immunity of others. This really is the core of the demise of English common law. Their radicals always start with any tactic to write a one sided ledger rather than a double balance ledger with a debit and a credit system. The Monarch Form of Government is single sided. The Republican is an accounting ledger. They are some of the worst accountants in the world.
That's the secret. An accountant. He didn't actually find one, and in fact the opposite. He's as far away as he can get possible. Accountants with legal backgrounds are stronger than most standard attorneys because it is a self taught ability to factually construct law under a double balance Republican Form accounting ledger. There isn't a degree for it, and they don't teach it in law school because no one graduates law school and becomes a Justice. They don't actually have an education to be a Justice and what work product they study to become one isn't public. It's one of the only jobs in America that is more of a monopoly and a Monarchy than any other job other than being an actual royal member of the royal family.
Do you know what the one thing a Justice does than an "attorney" usually does not?
What's the one code in the federal code that the ABA doesn't have jurisdiction over? Yes, the ABA claims to have jurisdiction over the entire federal code except one. The Tax Code. 26 U.S.C. An attorney doesn't work in tax court cases. That's a U.S.T.C.P. They are two totally different bars. An attorney is only authorized to practice in one state and under Amendment X. I am a paralegal by state law and authorized to practice in all 50 US states and territories. An attorney isn't allowed to do that, because they work under the ABA and only the Tax Code has a separate court. There is no degree to be a federal practitioner and practice in all 50 US states and territories. Even if you went to law school, you didn't actually learn what the bar exam is about. That would be an accountant or an accounting degree, or other executive administrative degree. The state bar doesn't have authority over the executive administrative, because their authority is judicial. A Justice has experience reviewing two branches of Government. An attorney only has experience in one. An accountant with a legal background has experience in both. He literally didn't hire anyone to represent him with an experience in the Executive branch and the practice of law to claim a right to practice under the Executive branch.
Google a double balance accounting ledger. It is a debit and credit system of accounting. You debit one side of the ledger and that credits the other side. If we weren't using the Flat Earth Theory when filing pleadings with the court in a flat language construction alone, you would be able to physiologically see what law looks like if Earth were round. You would physically see how a debit to a right credits a protection and so forth. It would all be as simple as reading year end financial records and filing your taxes. Judicial practice and judicial practitioners under a state judicial practice do not have this standard of law. They just run into the court with a quick short and brief summary of their year end financials, never having actually done any books. Why the tax court was created to emancipate slaves and not the district courts. It is a federal standard that is hidden in state and judicial practice, because of the lack of experience you actually have to have to pass a state bar exam. They are entry level practitioners. Reportably, only around 100 people are active on the federal bar who have passed the federal bar exam out of all the attorneys in America. The tax courts sort of cheat out in this concept, because the subject is accounting, but the regular courts could sure learn a lesson or two, and, for that, they are decades behind like using a Flat Earth model. You just see a sentencing running down the paper in one column like a flat Earth with one dimension. Law is factually two columns, written and read in that way. And if you wanted to be relative, it would be in 3D. If they had just advanced from the stone ages, instead of having to listen to this guy rant for an hour, we would just be reading law in a ledger and mathematically account for the law. That allows you to stop where there is an error and know where it is in the ledger, rather than just blindly hoping it was in the right place by comparing language. You hope the edge of the flat Earth isn't there, but you just really aren't sure. That might be the same language. It might not. Can you name every right that gets debited for a credit to a protection and which debit applies to which credit? Law is that simple. You can google what accounts debit and which credit in accounting, but you can't google law construction and see the same thing. Flat Earth law lacks the construction of a balanced equation.
With three strikes a poor man goes to jail for stealing a sandwich. Millions and millions of dollars are being spent to help a guilty rich man stay out of jail. This is US justice.
America has always been built around protecting rich people and corporations.
Hilary emails? Hunter Biden’s laptop? All this is a joke. They don’t care about anyone
@@gelinrefira Squirmed out of the grip of one ruling class just to help create another.
Issue is you are led to believe that and empirical evidence says otherwise with regard to Trump. Other politicians that you may conveniently exclude from your criticism have actively been inappropriate. Such as Hillary Clinton. It's a fact every president has done what Trump is described to have done. So either Democrat held Congress can just go ahead and try and make it a a law right now and not be awkward and sneaky about it or this whole thing is a political show meant to discredit Trump more than to find Justice. What crime did he commit? This video sure can't articulate it concisely or at all, just hearsay that what he did is similar to that of Nixon
Your point about three strikes is spot on though. We need to have laws that first and foremost apply to the people at the top and then can start applying at an equal measure to everyone else
Speaking as a lawyer with 15 years of experience, this is the best TH-cam channel ever. It saves me so much time when non-lawyer friends and family ask me about some legal news story. Instead of spending half an hour explaining things to them I can just send them a link. Thank you LegalEagle, keep up the good work.
You definitely have a lawyer’s name.
You must be a sh1t lawyer if you base your judgement on what side of the political fence you sit on.
100% Facts. Awesome channel, super rigorous and nuanced but never afraid to tell the truth.
@@saynotop2w It really should be Carter Clayton III.
@@taranullius9221 Speaking in a southern accent while stroking his suspenders, "Carter Clayton III for the defense your Honor."
Imagine _unironically_ quoting _Nixon_ in somebody's defense! Did they seriously think Nixon came out on top in that argument?!
Yeah. Fox News
It is important to understand/know that Justice Kavanaugh spent a lot of time after the Nixon administration working on the expansion of the President's powers. There has been a concerted effort by the right to establish the very things T**** is declaring, making these cases more important as those principles are torn down by the courts.
All you can do is imagine that, as the clip shows no such thing. It was 1 sentence without any context. Not only was it not Trump or his lawyers who made the statement but the statement is literally a fact in itself. "Nixon famously said if the president does it, It isnt illegal" . that is exactly what the clip says. All the spin is added by you and legal eagle. Its purposeful bias at least by him for his part.
@@jboss119 Tucker Carlson literally cited Nixon in the video.
@@RTaco timestamp? The only time i saw it clipped in the video here was fox and friends clip and it wasn't tucker carlson talking or was he in the clip at all. In fact i gave the exact quote of what was said in the clip.
Wasn't "if the President does it, it is not illegal" established not to be the case in Marbury v. Madison, one of the earliest and most important cases in the history of the Supreme Court?!
Not really. It established for the first time that federal courts had the power to overturn an act of Congress on the ground that it violated the U.S. Constitution. The issue revolved around William Marbury, a prominent financier and Federalist, sued Secretary of State James Madison in response to not being served his commission for justice of the peace for Washington, D.C. Marbury requested the U.S. Supreme Court issue a writ of mandamus to force Madison to deliver the commission. (A writ of mandamus is a court order for a government official to fulfill their obligation under the law.)
It was power politics, start to finish. CJ Marshall wanted to expand the power of the Court and used this case as a way of doing so. By ruling that the Judiciary Act of 1789 (the basis upon which Marbury sought mandamus) Marshall implicitly gave the courts the power to decide which laws were and weren't constitutional. The actual outcome of the case isn't the important part of this (Marshall actually ruled in Jefferson's and Madison's favor), it was the way in which Marshall deftly skirted the real issue and established the doctrine of judicial review.
Every time I hear more about how stupid the legal strategy is and how bad the lawyers must be, I think about working on contract in communications for major companies. The amount of times I was told to do something ridiculous, stupid, and illegal just because they couldn't get their acts together and figure out the proper way to do it was a lot. And they would lord it over me and demand I do exactly as they said no matter how idiotic it was.
Here is the thing the lawyers that have worked with trump in the past have stated he is a difficult client to work with. He constantly wants to be a part of the strategy. Probably why the excuses keep changing. It really sounds like the lawyers he looks for are just yes men
@@blankname6629 of course he does, he's a narcissist after all. he wants to believe that he is the best at everything he does, not have people who would disagree with him ever
It's almost like the system we labor under fails utterly at putting the kinds of people we want to be in charge in positions of power. While claiming to be the best at doing that.
I wonder why that might be.
@@Frommerman -- Minority rule, by businesspeople.
@@Frommerman Maybe the world's really bad enough that it is. I sometime wonder that.
My conclusion of all this: it was a grave error not to prosecute Nixon and leave Ford's corrupt pardon of Nixon unchallenged.
Trump makes Nixon look like Betty White.
And people have argued Biden should pardon Trump.
The arguments to pardon trump will be stronger than the arguments to pardon Nixon (nobody was gonna riot for Nixon). But that only makes the consequences of not doing so far worse. Trump must face jail
@@brandyhuber5323
Have they actually argued it's in Biden's own interests to do so? I'd like to hear how that could be considering this is the guy who had people hold a riot to try to keep Biden out of office.
@@brandyhuber5323 We may have to deal with a self-pardon at some point, because of course he has pardoned himself.
That would be unconstitutional, as it would place the President above the Law and above the two other co-equal branches of government. But with the loonies running SCOTUS, who knows what they will decide.
As a government employee who deals with classified information I can assure you that if any other government employee had ‘spilled’ (government term) this much classified material at these levels of classification they’d be well on their way to prison for the rest of their life.
sadly trump will probably get out of this without any issues like always (maybe throwing a few people under the bus along the way) and use it to further his next campaign saying he was targeted.
its scary how much people that are/were president get away (while in office they are apparently untouchable if their party likes them enough and while there they get to decide who runs all the offices that might later investigate them)
For a civilian: criminal charges, arrest, no bail and eventual disposition with a long stay in a federal Grey Bar Hotel and Day Spa.
For military: court martial charges, arrest, brig or stockade, no bail and a long tour of duty with MPs for company.
trump and all its cronies are LONG past prison time
executions for all of them are the only thing that will heal this country
Same, and agreed.
Yes, just look at what happened to Reality Winner. And, yes, that is her real, legal name.
I really enjoy how you quickly set up and knock down the arguments. It's like a high speed legal brief. You even do the Yes, No, Probably Yes, Probably No determinations. Nice work.
Not diminishing LegalEagle’s script, but I imagine it was pretty easy to knock down any of these ludicrous and shallow “arguments”
@@thysquid2157 Agreed. I still like how quick and concisely it is done for those who aren't as in tune and need a quick top to bottom of what's up.
I like the idea that Trump can declassify things with just his mind. Like what if he accidentally thought about declassifying the launch codes? Does that make them declassified for whatever arbitrary period of time until he thinks to reclassify them? Foreign agents could have a field day. “Don’t think about the pink elephant”
Chinese Spy: "I did not conduct espionage, the president declassified them 3 years ago with his thoughts!"
Judge: "Mr president, is that true?"
President: "I can not recollect every thought I had three years ago so can not refute that statement as 100% false."
Judge: "In doubito pro reo, you are free to go I guess."
One problem is that even were that the case, if the process isn't followed to relabel the documents then his successor would essentially automatically reclassify them the same way. For example Biden having the thought "documents labelled classified are classified" would have reclassified the documents in Trump's possession.
@@murrayjeffree8245 All it takes is one rogue thought that we can neither prove did or didn’t happen. “Schrödingers classification” if you will.
Plus, if Trump can declassify documents with his mind (right before stealing them and taking them home), and if this really was a political stunt like Trump claims, couldn't Biden re-classify the documents with HIS mind right before the raid?
Of course not it only counts when its on Twitter or the banned ones alt.
"I can do whatever I want as President", "When the President does, it´s not illegal" how is that not fascism in a nutshell?
It is, and his supporters are in love with it.
Even Nixon had the wherewithal to resign.
it is and the horrible part is that its true the US will never prosecute a president and if it comes to that i wouldn't be surprised if biden pardons trump soley because " it makes the US look bad". the United States has always been a fash hellhole
I mean its not. They have passed monarchy and other more advanced systems of government, heading for pure and simple despotism. There is no law say what the currently strongest says is law and therefore that person cannot break the law, as it exist solely by their will.
@rene Christensen it would be
Lets just go back to 2016 words from trump, "In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information," and then "No one will be above the law"
All Americans are equal, but some Americans are more equal than others. 👀
@@steve_yu Make Orwell's works Fiction Again
That was when he hoped to wheeled the law as a weapon against a political opponent.😒💙🇺🇸🌊🌊🌊
Trump also talked about "draining the swamp," but he only made it bigger and more toxic.
16:40
"Special master" mentioned with "Rule 34" on the screen...
My brain went places lol
Can you imagine saying documents were planted, FBI bad... only then to immediately turn around and say, nevermind I had them all along but I declassified them. Then the plot twist is that you're being prosecuted under the laws you've created intended for a political opponent.
The thing with Trump seems to be that he's physically unable to deny anything he did and instead has to brag about them.
I can now. I just watched it happen. Before that? No I couldn't have imagined because I thought he was actually savvy enough from a legal perspective to manipulate his decisions. Apparently, unlike the criminal organization he runs, he can't just throw everyone under him under the bus as easily. He's tried, almost to no end. Now they will just share the table.
I assure you he knows exactly what he's doing.. he's throwing shit at the wall to confuse the people, so that his followers aren't entirely sure or what the truth is but keep hearing ways it may be false. It's not about court, it's about public opinion
@@Yora21 @Yora Trump literally believe he doesnt do anything wrong. Trump claims to be a Christian. When asked by moderator Frank Lutz whether he has ever asked God for forgiveness of his actions, Trump said, “I'm not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don't think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don't bring God into that picture. I don't.”
@@_Jake.From.Statefarm_ ,
He was breaking the law within months of swearing he'll abide by the Constitution... the evidence was all over his twitter feed.....
I just imagine Trump yelling "Declassified" like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy
I've had that thought as well.
I was imaging that scene when they were running around yelling 'Parkour' but freaky to be so close!
Nice!!
I DECLARE DECLASSIFICATION!
In his mind, he doesn’t even have to do the verbal declaration. He just has to think it in his mind for it to be in effect.
Fox quoting Nixon just makes John Oliver a goddamn precog when, long before any of this happened, he termed the phrase "STUPID WATERGATE".
As much as I like John Oliver, it didn't take any precognition. Fox News' existence is explicitly because of Watergate, and Roger Stone is the link between all of it.
Had to come up with some tricks to make his WATERGATE SPEEDRUN
The office scene of Michael Scott yelling “I declare bankruptcy”. Is immediately what came to mind…
If they are actually declassified, then they would be public documents and subject to a FOIA right? Wouldn’t simply filing a FOIA prove this either way?
Good point but in reality if they had been theoretically declassified by Trump they would soon be reclassified upon recovery
If Trump had the documents a FOIA document would do no good, where would they find these documents to publish?
Well, filing a FOIA request would determine whether or not the executive branch considers them classified; you'd file it and the Biden administration would tell you "absolutely not, those are super classified." The Trump camp could then say "the Biden administration is refusing to release unclassified documents, which it totally should do because Trump declassified them" or perhaps a more reasonable "well, I guess Biden decided they were classified again. Trump declassified them and now Biden reclassified them, which presidents are allowed to do." Such a request wouldn't actually yield anything of substance.
Yes, I think a very strong argument is that declassification is not for the presidents benefit but for the citizen who has and should have the opportunity to see documents when being declassified. If the president can declassify documents "in their mind" it has no benefit...
What date and time did you file your request? Oh, you're just talking out the side of your mouth.
Honestly it’s bizarre to me how people are believing his defenses . Especially when they’ve literally been proven wrong years before with precedent. Either they don’t understand or they’ve not even listened to a single counter argument .
Because it's a cult. There is no evidence in the world that can challenge blind faith. They could watch him murder their own families and clap in joy.
I've looked into that information silo. They're trying to create unrest by spewing propaganda about how Trump did nothing wrong.
Its because, either way...nothing will come of it.
Trump's followers are incapable of logic. they have been well trained by their media to completely reject all logic. that's why none of their arguments make sense. arguments are based on logic.
they are cult members
Some people dont have any other source of news but fox.
It's purely brainwashing by propaganda.
It's the Alex Jones situation all over again - where the perpetrator of these ridiculous actions has made such a mess it is literally impossible for a lawyer to defend them.
I think it’s worse because Trump is smearing the FBI
You don’t mess with the FBI and get away with just a slap on the wrist
That and the lawyers seem absolutely intent on screwing their grotesquely malevolent, f@#$witted clients. Kudos if this is all the purposeful derailment of Fascist pigs.
Or the lawyer is a globalist trying to bring down the good guy
If we got another Alex Jones perjury moment, but with Donald Trump, that would make me so happy
@@justabookworm1382 He would try to speak over the judge on day one and then implicate himself without realizing it, probably while trying to represent himself since he is the best lawyer, the greatest.
I kind of picture the lawyers spending the last two weeks scouring Wikipedia for what to do next.
Genuine question: DOJ responded to the motion for a special master by pointing out the lawyers signed a sworn statement that they had turned over everything. What kind of legal trouble are they potentially facing for basically lying to DOJ? Based on FBI documentation of the search and seizure, there were documents scattered all over the place, some obfuscated.
18USC 1001
Hearing Trump supporters defend him and his statements about having unilateral authority to do anything he wants is terrifying. I don't care who you vote for--giving that much power to one single person is A VERY BAD IDEA, even if it's someone you voted for. That the "party of small government" and the party that never shuts up about how "free" this country is will so vocally support this kind of autocratic bs is chilling.
the funny part is he is not the current president
"Party of small government" and "muh freedoms" have always been a smokescreen for turning this country into their own Christian theocracy. They aren't even concerned with denying it anymore.
It's almost like a democratic Republic was founded with this exact situation in mind. I wonder which country would fit this historically speaking...
@@VeteranVandal 😉 which one? (no but really it is sad and ironic)
his supporters are a bunch of brainwashed fascist stooges. yes they are completely in favor of him being a dictator.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
(Taylor Caldwell)
Ironic seeing this here.
Trump has certainly been the biggest traitor we’ve ever seen and has spread his treason to half the country to such a point it will continue well into the future. Worse, they believe they are the only true patriots.
This is the scariest time in our country since the civil war. I’ve heard people say this my whole life, so it is a boy who cried wolf type of statement, but in my 55 years I finally think it true and this is the legacy he has left - I truly worry about the future of our nation for my grandkids.
@@remy333 seems appropriate to me.
@Mike Byrne even if either of those were true, and they’re not, they wouldn’t be treason. But attempting to subvert the election process, more than once, inciting a violent mob to take over the Capitol for the purpose of interfering with the peaceful transition of power, thereby tearing up the Constitution and forcibly keeping him in power, now those are acts of treason. And there’s really no doubt he’s done those things. That an extremely partisan Senate didn’t impeach him is meaningless.
@Mike Byrne ok.
He said to stop them from certifying the election results. To stop Pence. You can try and deny it, try and rationalize all you want. But the reality is both his words and his actions that day and in the weeks and months leading up to that day showed he was doing whatever it took for him to remain in power no matter what. That is basically what you call a coup and that is treason. Worse, his actions and words leading up to that day and since have gotten a large percentage of the country in support of that coup and treason, apparently including you. You cannot support or defend him nor his actions that day and support the Constitution and if you can’t support the Constitution you can’t support America. So I am done taking with you, traitor.
The lengths you people will go to defend him no matter what he does is beyond baffling. If Joe Biden or any other democrat did even one single piece of the many acts Trump has done y’all would crucify them. Just think for yourself for just a moment instead of falling for the groupthink of the party line, for once. Just for once, have an honest thought with yourself about it.
I said to my wife when he was running as a candidate in 2015 that if he got the nomination he would ruin the Republican Party and if he managed to win he would ruin the nation. I have been right on both accounts. I left the party when he won the nomination because I couldn’t believe the party could fall for such an unqualified conman and I have watched the party turn into a completely intolerant group of extremist bullies with zero ideas except to push lies and conspiracy theories. It has been molded in his image, his corrupt, lying, intolerant, conspiracy loving image and it’s the saddest thing ever for this nation as now we are divided deeper than ever.
Have a nice day.
16:47 Small mistake here. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 34 actually states that "If there is evidence of the existence of a subject, then there must also be adult-only materials using the likeness of the subject."
I see you're a man of culture as well.
I literally came to the comments for this right here.
Extensive legal bureaucracy has existed since the first civilization had left-over grain.
@@inreverettify Same
Ah.. I was the 69th thumb. So mote be it.
just looking at the comments of people who dont understand that their idol can do illegal things is just so funny to watch
Ikr! I've gotten some hillarious replies here.
Actually it's a tragedy.The number of people who don't understand or worse don't care that this man aspires to be a dictator is horrifying.
@@elizabethsohler6516 some people have argued that the capital raid was justified and ok
@elizabethsohler6516 sure but that's par for the course. There will always be people deeply entrenched in their beliefs, regardless of what those beliefs are. It's not worth having an existential crisis over.
I think the reason why Cheeto's attorney took so long to respond is because it took him that long to find a lawyer to represent him. Seriously, if I was a lawyer, why would I take on someone like him? He doesn't pay his bills, he lies all the time, and he has the emotional restraint of a three year old.
Not to mention could get you disbarred
Do we believe the any lawyer wrote the affidavit? Trump dictated it, we can tell by the language.😏💙🇺🇸🌊🌊🌊
The likelihood of Trump running out of attorneys to work with him and representing himself, imo, is quite high, and I for one cannot wait to read his motions or watch his defense at that point.
You sir, have insulted many a 3 year old.
He’s gonna have your uncle who is a “legal expert” to represent him soon
"No, officer. You planted that merchandise on me. Besides, I paid for it in my head on my way out of the store. And even then a customer can't shoplift because the customer is always right!" (proceeds to get tased)
🤣
Perfect analogy.
Trump: I. DECLARE. DECLASSIFICATION!
Everyone else: You know Donald, you can't just say the word "declassification" and expect it to mean anything.
Trump: I didn't say it, I declared it.
Since you like to,change the rules of what a president can an can't do because you hate the guy why not look into Delaware and Chicago or better yet Hillary took classified documents let's go and raid them shall we.
*I thought it
Or, “I ‘hereby’ declare it” lol
Damn you beat me to it haha
Trump is laughable. During the election he prematurely declared victory over battleground states like Pennsylvania. Did not matter that votes were still being tallied in these states- Trump saw a lead and pounced. What cracked me up was the dingus thought tweeting victory was somehow an official proclamation.
16:50 …. Rule 34? seriously? the motion trumps team ended up filing after TWO ENTIRE WEEKS cites Rule 34?
reality is stranger than fiction sometimes 😂
I think that was an oversight from the editor as he said "rule of civil procedure 53" but "rule 34" shows up
@@snuggletrumpet8829 I love it when rule 34 shows up
They requested a special master because one of the high profile lawyers Trump tried to hire, but who turned him down said that's what he would have done if he had taken the case.
lmao lolol
and because it presumably opens an avenue to make the case accountable to Trump... then all they have to do is bribe or coerce the special master into releasing that nothing obtained is damning, and they can do the same shady shit they've done any time Trump has come under fire, calling the individual's character and validity into question, smearing, attacking, etc.
So, everyone here liking the comment is totally cool when the FBI raids their home and using the FBI, to filter through their belongings, to justify what the FBI needs to prosecute you? No one here would like a third party to do the filtering to ensure the legality of the search/raid?
Ok.
Haha, so true. I remember hearing that guy say that and a few days later, they sent it to a judge trump picked. Too bad they filled it with the wrong court 🤣
A lifetime of bilking people out of payments they are due is finally catching up to Donald.
I love when people throw around official terms inappropriately so they can manipulate those who don’t know how those things work. Totally doesn’t boil my blood
yeah. like i just got an ad before this video where the narrator said "fetterman wants to end life sentences for felony murder" while the ad displayed words about 2nd degree murder. the entire ad was bogus of course, but anyone who knows that 2nd degree murder and felony murder are two totally different things would easily see the red flags.
Something that disturbs me is the idea that law breaks down to endless subjective arguments at the highest levels. Most of these videos posit various legal implications of politicians and celebrities actions, yet we rarely seem to see any resolution. It seems that breaking the law is a very nebulous concept at that level, while the rest of us are held to vary exact standards and penalties.
So we need our legislative branch to address this?
Exactly why I laugh at these videos. It does not matter what this man does he will not get in any serious trouble. I will be shocked if we ever see him in cuffs for any of the various so called laws he has broken even before he became president (which is still a shock that it even happened!)
@@snieves4 The laws and governing regulations already exist. We need for those laws to be enforced. AG needs to do its job and indict and secure convictions. Take off the kid gloves.
Here's what gets me. These "top secret" documents were clearly missed immediately. And it doesn't take a stable genius to figure out where they went. And yet Trump wasn't arrested by nightfall of January 2020. He wasn't arrested a year and a half later, when they first started "looking" for them. He wasn't even arrested after they found MORE on their recent search. Tell me again how long I would have lasted in the same position.
The fact that they went, "hey can you give us these documents back and we’ll call it even” when literally anyone else holding tons of classified documents (some about NUCLEAR CODES?!)would have been pinned down SO FAST 💀💀
I've always liked your channel, but it's just been really great lately. As a practicing attorney that specializes in real estate, this is really good continuing legal education for me as people don't understand that there are specialized fields of law and I may not be up on everything in regards to the current state of the world. But now I am. Thanks man, great content!
God help anyone that hires you as their lawyer.
@@aaron3705 explain.
LeftistEagle is not a good lawyer. Hes a leftist puppet. Find a real lawyer if you want objective facts about a case. Hes too coloured politically and unprofessional.
"If the president does it, it's not a crime."
Oh, I'm sorry, but we live in a democratic republic, not a tin pot dictatorship. We have checks and balances on government for a reason, Mr. *Former* President, and you sir or not above the law. If you want to become a dictator, move to an abandoned oil rig to claim as sovereign territory and leave the rest of us alone
remember Billy and his classified docs in his sock drawer? Then there is Killery and her email server with 33k destroyed emails. Trump will walk as there was no crime committed.
J6, Rusian collusion, blah blah blah...
However, it has been established that during their term presidents are immune to prosecution for many laws to remove the temptation of the opposition to abuse it.
And normally presidents respect the law and don't break a half dozen or more before lunch.
@@macmcleod1188 That’s just the AG using prosecutorial discretion for the sake of “protecting the integrity of the office of the presidency” (how letting them get away with crimes everyone saw them commit protects integrity is beyond me) but it’s not a law or in the constitution anywhere.
That's why they are going with the "banana republic" defense.
@@macmcleod1188 Yes. However the key word is during their term. During their term they can't be formally charged and put in front of a civil or crimanal court. But in fact they can be prosecuted, and put in front of congress for Impeachment. And they can be put to triall after they left the office, either by finishing their term and not being reelected, or being removed by senate after impeachment procedure.
what bothers me is we are giving away all our secrets and everyone is in a hurry to elect him again because they think he can do no wrong.
It's cause nobody read the emperor's new clothes
I mean, those people are part of a cult. That sort of insanity comes with the territory, unfortunately.
Oh, he wouldn't give them away. I'm sure he'd demand a hefty fee for them.
@@thexalon - Pretty sure he already has. Expect news in the next few years about a new Saudi nuclear program.
Rather Trump than a puppet.
So the defenses can be summed up:
"It is your fault for not reading my mind."
"Here is this previous criminal that claimed it was legal."
"Hey they are secret US documents, you can not take them!"
"My lawyers are too bad."
No he hasn't said that last one yet. He still thinks they know what they're doing.
I guess they learned the art of the grift.
Don’t forget “If you don’t give them back, terrible things will happen”
Because threatening the FBI is such a brilliant legal defense
Oh and “the FBI planted them!”
Yet another brilliant legal defense after the FBI asked nicely for over a year to get those documents back
One all former presents have taken classified documents off government premises.
Two Trump said to his staffer that any document he takes off government premises is declasifided. This power, by just saying it, has been used by former presidents, including Brack Obama.
Three, the FBI talked to Trump and told him to lock them up more while he was in the prosses of handing them over.
Four, the present has preliminary authority to declassify documents; in other words, he does not have to go through a part of the executive branch with which he has delegated power to use that same power. The other branch of the executive branch gets the power to declassify documents from the president the paperwork is so the president can know about them.
@darknightoftroy They haven't been able to find any crimes that have been proven to be misinformed from the media during the January 6th hearing to convict him on treason and that that the second impeachment was about, and they could not convict him on anything like that. So no, he has committed treason if he had they would have been able to remove him from office in the second impeachment trial.
Thanks for promoting the Judges List. I am going to listen to it next. Really appreciate your work and enjoy your content.
I don’t know which is worse, that he thinks his followers are dumb enough to fall for this crap, or that he’s right
Its neither. Nothing will come of it.
He doesn’t think his followers will believe him?
@@jamescox2894 And what if anything will come of it is an entirely separate question from his excuses and who believes them. That you are conflating the two… well. I can see why you would be the sort to fall for him
@@Time_Is_Left - His base is legitimately enthralled enough to fall for it. Look at his defenders in the comments on this video.
Honestly, history makes a lot more sense than it used to. People love kings, autocrats, and dictators.
@@NotGoodAtNamingThings Those aren’t mutually exclusive. I agree they are legitimately enthralled lol.
They are also dumb
The chef's kiss level of irony in all this is that if he's prosecuted the penalties he'll face were put in place by a law he signed in his first year of office. Those "lock her up" chants did not age well for him. don't get me wrong. I'm not a fan nor defending either of them. I'm just a fan of irony.
There's arguments to be made about a lot of former presidents having done stuff that should put them in jail, but with Trump there's some many things I wouldn't even know where to start.
@@meneldal I'm sure your right. However, I doubt any president has had this many documents with national security implications locked in their closet after he left office. After all the talk from Trump and then signing a law that includes stiffer penalties for mishandling documents, he goes and commits the same crime. If this was a movie Hollywood made up it would get poor reviews. People would say, "that movie sucked. No one would be that stupid."
@@btbarr16 Yes I was listening to a radio program where some professional writers were discussing how bad a story the President Former Guy administration would be because of the "idiot plot" which is bad writing. They explained that an "idiot plot" is when a story would fall apart if one character would simply stop being an idiot.
@Eric van Bezooijen sounds about right. Also, idiot plot describes like 90%of horror films which this has been.
@@btbarr16 I can only assume murderers hunt idiots
I think we're all just fed up with politicians getting away with a lower standard of ethics/actions, while having more legal "courtesies" and a higher quality of life.
yeah honestly most of Congress belongs in prison
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You'll get no argument from me.
I keep hearing the same thing over and over if you're going to blame somebody why don't you put some real names up I can say several of them most of them are Republican party and there may be a couple Democrats as well but I keep saying most of Congress there's some very good people in Congress and I voted for them and there's some horrible people in Congress Taylor green Matt gets Lauren bobert Mitch McConnell Rand Paul Ted Cruz for example I'm voice texting so forgive me for any spelling errors so like I said give us some names maybe agree with the ones I put up maybe you don't
I think many are also fed up with some politicians being held to different legal standards.
bidens too
You are a much needed addition to talking heads. You actually know what you’re talking about! LDF, Esq.
Ah, the classic "You can't hit me because I have an everything proof force shield" defence, often seen on school play grounds.
Let's see how this works out for him.
It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for him.
@@kcwicks I think plans for one of those were part of the secret documents Trump was holding in the bathroom at Mara Lago.
To stay safe, the people really do need some top secret information to remain classified. When someone keeps spilling classified information that could get people killed, to leaders of unfriendly countries and random visitors, at what point can we stop wondering why they did it, and start focusing on making sure that they can't do it anymore?
It's not just the "unfriendly" nations which are interested in learning what's in the TS documents. It's our Allies too. Why? Because they want to know how much of what they have shared with the US is now flying around in the world that comes back to bite THEM.
What is their justified reaction to the news? "Button up everything! Nothing goes to the Americans! They are not trustworthy to keep our information secret and they are not trustworthy in terms of what they share with us as reliable either. We need to rely on our other sources and keep the US at bay."
Trump requested names on 8/3/2019 after meeting with Putin on 7/31/2019.
The only leaking has been the FBI leaking.
The intelligence the President gets is not direct source info. Do you seriously think the names of spies and technical nuclear weapon information is just sitting around on a piece of paper?
@@arthurfonzarelli9331 these people do not think.
"It's not illegal when you're the president."
That is not a presidency then. That is monarchy.
Or a dictatorship.
Ehh even a monarch can be held to the law
Monarchies require the throne to go from parent to child. It is authoritarian
And even then... some monarchies can be held accountable
Are you doing something about it besides farting?
He declassified his attorney client privilege on those documents! Lol. Trump is a never ending comedy stream.
I was astonished you ever elected him in the first place, but even writing that off as a really bad mistake, The fact that even now with his track record , there are still people willing to tie them selves in knots trying to defend him is mind boggling to me.
American right-wingers are slaves to their own tribal pride. It sucks them in like a black hole's event horizon, causing them to go wherever the tribe decrees -- purported principles be damned.
Trump insulted Ted Cruz's wife, defamed his dad, called Ted sh1t. In turn, Ted called potential voters for Trump, didn't defend his wife, and went along with the insults to his dad and himself.
His kneeling in front of 🍊 has to hurt!
@@pamelacass9642
Ted Cruz?
Nah, this is Ted Cuckold
@@pamelacass9642 you forget this is also the same man who tried to leave Texas during that snowstorm to Cancun and when caught, blamed his daughters, saying it was their idea. Ted is a weasel.
@@maybemablemaples2144 The picture of sad Ted Cruz making calls for trump always brightens my day. He just looks so defeated, and frankly he deserves it.
“The legal argument in [Grisham’s latest novel] are better than those of the former President’s lawyers” is perhaps the best line of the day.
I actually laughed out loud at that :)
Yep, the lawyer so successful he has lots of time to make youtube videos sure is an expert, we can tell by his zingers.
@@nathanmorgan3647 Welcome, Troll.
@@geoffstrickler Cant take the truth and result to namecalling.... Yup, this is the internet
@@nathanmorgan3647 Clearly you’re the one who can’t deal with the truth. Act like a troll, get called a troll.
It totally cracked me up when he claimed that those documents were subject to Executive Privilege. I'm not a lawyer, but even I understood immediately that if this was actually true, then all those documents pretty much "belong" to Joe Biden. I also sensed that it was a confession, which Legal Eagle just confirmed. But can we take a moment to savor how mad Trump would be if he had to hear from one of his lawyers what he had just publicly admitted?
Except it doesn't look like he will have to hear that from one of his lawyers, because they are apparently as dumb as him, putting confessions in their own filings.
@@Dadofer1970 Clearly they have yet to learn don't write down your crimes.
Well, I'm afraid the problem there is that Trump has his own reality.
He seems to believe that he is still President, at least he still calls himself that.
You are presuming he did something wrong. Even in this video, after you remove implication, there is no clear statement of wrong doing that Trump is spefically accused of. Unless i paused and accidently skipped it. I get called a Trump supporter for not trusting politics... I have yet to hear definatively that he failed to follow proper proceedure. Always, maybe, and then this nixon stuff. Trump can call himself emperior of the moon, but is it illegal...
@max fourth eagle of the apocalypse make thisshit stick cuz otherwise what trump 2024?
Interesting how filing in a wrong court can get you stuck being ordered to do more lawyer work, which isn't free. Can a lawyer respond with a very quick "mea culpa" response or are they on the hook for explaining all of that while trying not to look bad?
They can file a motion saying they filed their first motion incorrectly and request a dismissal of the case. The judge can also choose to sanction them for it or not.
If you quote Richard Nixon to support the behaviour of a president, you have already lost the argument.
Yeah just ask them what happened to Nixon immediately after he said that
@@dielaughing73 well, technically nothing. He'd already resigned. It probably hurt his legacy a bit more though.
@@Blokewood3 Clearly it didn't hurt his legacy.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 his legacy was already ruined
Actually no, but nice try
Classic Narcissistic Sociopath Defence. I was never at the scene of the crime, and if I was I didn't do anything wrong, and if i did, other people have done worse
I have thought for years that any elected official (President, Senator, House Rep, etc…) should have less right to privacy than the average citizen, not more.
Yep. They should pretty much be under oath any time they speak in public.
exactly a public servant should be held to a higher standard
And that's why you aren't and will never be president.
@@fkujakedmyname - Including police, our standards shouldn't be so absurdly low for people given that much power.
The full version of these videos should not be hidden behind a paywall for Nebula or anything else - they need to be public. The information, analysis, and insight you provide should be available to everyone.
Trump: "Nobody is above the law. Not even me, the president."
Also Trump: "I am above the law. I'm the president."
Gee it's almost like he's an inconsistent person who says anything to justify himself in any moment no matter how little sense it makes.
He was a fraud before taking office, a fraud while in office, and will be a fraud now that he's out of office.
Main difference now is that the American People get to pick up the tab for the lovely pension that all of his friends and family now receive. Isn't "Democracy" great?
Also also Dump: "There's this thing called Two Articles; it says I can do whatever I want. But I don't talk about that."
People with brains: "Dude, you're literally talking about it right friggin now."
Apparently President Trump is above the law, but Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden, neither of which have the defenses available to a President, are. James Comey made an excellent opening statement for a criminal trial of Hillary just before indicating that it will never happen. I remember when I was told when I was employed by the federal government that official government emails are only allowed to be sent through government email servers. There is a reason for that.
Trump's favorite movie line is when Stallone tells Roy Schneider "I AM THE LAW!" In Judge Dread. It's the basis for his whole philosphy
As a non- US citizen, I find it disturbing and concerning how little discussion I see in US online media about international consequences this whole affair has for the US. There seems to be little thought not only to how impacts US security and even less on how allies, rivals or even enemies react to this. I can only assume that for example the French are not happy about files on their president and even less if existing ones are not secure…
This comes as no surprise to other world leaders. They all have their own dossiers on everyone else. "Allies" just means a friend of current convenience.
How does outrageous conduct by the FBI doing a pretextual raid of the residence of a former President affect you? Everything the former President had were things he had legal access to and they were all securely stored and protected by the Secret Service. There was an administrative dispute about custody of documents, especially considering that the FBI was apparently improperly accessing documents to which they were not supposed to be privy.
@@946towguy2 the former president is guilty of theft of gov property. those docs don't belong to him. this was decided in the Nixon era.
@@946towguy2 outrageous? you mean completely routine.
The problem is that, what he has is unknown. So no one knows how it affects our international partners just yet. The hope is not at all, but the reality is probably more than what anyone wants to hear.
My favorite "defense" is that the reason he took and then kept the documents is that he wanted to use the contents of those documents to write and then publish a book.
You know what is even worse than taking ts:sci documents and refusing to return them? Distributing ts:sci documents
You mean have a book ghostwritten for him like his The Art of the Deal book, probably doesn't follow an eighth of what was written in it. A true book written by him would be called The Art of Bankruptcy and the Swindle...lol
Don't we have someone that's in literal exile for publishing not even top secret but just "sensitive" material to the public?
They weren't even doing it to make a profit.
Probably a lie considering it’s entirely not clear he can even read, much less write.
@@eduardocruz4341 The ghostwriter for “The Art of the Deal,” Tony Schwartz, said in 2020 that his biggest regret was writing that book,” and “I have never felt more frightened by Trump and his enablers than I do today. He is completely unmoored from reality, in full gaslighting mode & willing to say anything to survive, even if it kills us.”
@@searchingfororion may I have the name of the exiled for investivation into the case.
Good breakdown and best background I've seen.
One miss was the seizure of mixed materials in the boxes is not only common but any item such as utility bills, rent receipts of papers with signatures are evidence of access or control of the location where the items covered by the warrant were found. In this case involving government documents including classified ones it speaks to the conditions in which they were stored.
I picture open folders sitting on his coffee table with a roomful of house guests in attendance. I picture Trump reading the contents aloud to all present, just for a gas.
@@Maladjester He shared live video of a special forces operation with Mar A Largo guests as staff served them, so this behavior wouldn't be novel.
So he's basically arguing that he was the ultimate dictator of the US and he can do whatever because the law doesn't apply to him...
If you use Nixon as a defense, you are most deservedly screwed.
Should've gone with the Chewbacca defense instead
@@krackerkid5 Rip off the arms of the judge?
@@futuza “why would Chewbacca want to live on Endor with the much smaller Ewoks? It just don’t make sense”
-South Park
Nixon was never convicted or charged with any crime. He was going to be removed from office and that would have been the end of the matter if he hadn't stepped down as that is the only power that the legislature has over a president. What is happening now is unprecedented. People that hate Trump simply just don't care.
You know that you're in a deep hole when you invoke Nixon's ghost,saying,in essence,if the President who was chased out of the presidency did it,then,I can do it.
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
-Deep Throat, *All the President’s Men*
the sad thing is if we had the Nixon era Republicans in Congress Trump would have had to resign. The current day GOP just enabled him and continues to.
@darknightoftroy (can't read your comments in the thread, only in the notifications for some reason) but I'll just say the closest there was to Trump back in the day was George Wallace. What wouldn't play then plays now for the cult.
you can not have it both ways. either it is declassified - then everyone is allowed to see it, it is still not owned by trump . or it is classified, then we AND he is not allowed to read it, still, he is not owning anything.
21:40 The letter was not released to help Trump legally because the actual court case is already effectively over if he's ever prosecuted under the Espionage Act. The letter from NARA was released to fight in the court of public opinion, to rile up his base (who will see literally anything that Trump releases as good for him, regardless of content or context), and to implicitly threaten prosecutors with civil unrest if they prosecute. You'd know better than me, but I get the impression that there's literally no legal defense for what Trump has done if he's actually be prosecuted for it, so he's doing everything he can think of to avoid prosecution. Aside from cooperating, of course.
He cant be prosecuted under that act
Basically, they want a civil war to trigger if the DOJ goes in.
Honestly, I say let's go.
Imagine a duly-licensed physician sees a patient in the hospital and decides to change the patient’s medication orders. The physician has clear authority to do so……But, our physician tells no one. No written, verbal, or electronic communication to anyone. Naturally, the pharmacy and nursing staff will continue medications under the most recent valid orders.
A five year-old can see just how stupid this is, and how stupid Trump’s excuse is.
Kudos on an excellent straw man!
@@catholicdad That is a direct analogue to one of trump's arguments. People have _TRIED_ constructing strawmen to represent trump and his compatriots. It doesn't work because they're fake beyond conception.
@@something-from-elsewhere Too many pronouns to respond. Your English teacher should've taught you about proper pronoun usage.
@@catholicdad Define straw man, and explain how the oc's argument is one?
@@catholicdad isn’t that the argument? That Trump decided that they should be declassified and therefore they should be treated as if they are?
If I’m wrong feel free to correct me.
I feel bad for his lawyers. They won't get paid lmao
Trump must be one of those "can I pay you in exposure?" people lol.
They can always sue him for it lmao
Don't feel too bad, at this point they know and choose to stick with him anyways.
Monopoly Money.
Why? They picked a side, they picked a client knowing full well what kind of person he is. They made their bed knowing full well it was full of tacks and nails, and got in it anyway.
Another concern is how many documents tfg (or more likely his subordiantes) looked through in the vaults to find what he/they wanted to keep. His whole term was about information gathering. There is only one reason for that. To control said information. But considering how pathetically unintelligent tfg is then who of those close to him would know how best to benefit from the intel? We haven't heard those names yet and yet TS literature is still missing from the archive manifest. This is literally, from a security perspective, a worse-case scenario.
As a former holder of a TS/SCI clearance, I can speak with knowledge in this. It doesn't matter one bit what someone says including the president. You follow whatever the document is marked. If it says TS, it's treated as TS, period.
Except when the ex-'president' walks out of the White House with said documents in a box and takes them to his private residence and does god only knows what with them before he's found out.
I’m so glad you exist Legal Eagle. I really appreciate you making this, the effort you’ve put in, and you making the law (and current events with the law) more approachable and tangible is so important for the people! Thank you 🙏🏾
In the movie Dragon Heart, when talking about the Medieval code(which is basically the law), there is a line saying; "Nobody is above the Code, especially not the king." It was such a huge mistake to allow Trump to occupy the White House, a mistake that should and can never be made again.
I'm honestly concerned that if Trump is convicted, his cultists might actually start a civil war over that asshole. Like... I saw 1/6/21, Those people are F'ing insane.
Honestly... The best thing that could happen for the country would be for Trump to have a massive stroke. LIke a: in a powered wheelchair, can't talk, eating through a straw, blanket over the knees - stroke. He'd still be around so he wouldn't be a martyr for his followers, but... that head would be removed from the snake.
A mistake that, looking at the US's track record, will be made again.
A dead giveaway, pun intended, was when he said he "could stand in the middle of Fifth Ave and shoot somebody and wouldn't lose any voters, okay."
Orange man bad so let's embrace low effort banana republic behaviour, u confuse getting Ur way with "" democracy ""
@@Mcbignuts Oh look, we found the traitor supporter...