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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow can Trump claim executive privilege if he's not the "executive" anymore? n/t
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How can Trump claim executive privilege if he's not the "executive" anymore? n/t (Original Post)
Raven
Sep 2022
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Plus he is claiming that executive privilege allows him to keep things from the executive branch
Walleye
Sep 2022
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Walleye
(41,107 posts)1. Plus he is claiming that executive privilege allows him to keep things from the executive branch
zuul
(14,691 posts)2. That's one of the MANY aspects of TFG's argument that makes no fucking sense.
elleng
(139,804 posts)3. He can 'claim' whatever he wants, but he will NOT prevail on that claim.
Bettie
(18,410 posts)4. Hopefully, he can declare it
but that doesn't make it true.
He shouldn't have EP, but who knows anymore.
But, I bet when Biden leaves the White House, there will be Republicans standing over him making sure he doesn't take so much as a toothpick or pocket lint with him.
Lovie777
(18,956 posts)5. How can shithole claim "executive privilege" because he wrote on classified documents . ..
and entitled to take them with him when he left the WH.
Irish_Dem
(71,262 posts)6. He can claim anything he wants and the courts will fight over it for years.
Part of the plan to weaponize the court system.
He cant
dchill
(42,660 posts)8. "The authority of the President of the United States...
...shall not be questioned." Stephen Miller, Trump Toad