LordsFire
Internet Wizard
Well... There's absolutely no evidence of him giving any such instruction, the markings weren't adjusted to reflect a change in classification as required, and as you say the authority to decide that resides with the president not the ex-president, so he kinda needs to prove it occurred when he was. And again, regardless of classification it was wrong and illegal.
No he does not. 'Innocent until proven guilty' is a fundamental concept of the justice system. The onus is on the Fed to prove that he didn't.
And... AGAIN... Whether it was classified or not is immaterial to the meat of the issue. Which is that trump, who was not the government, had government records and files, and did not give them back when told to and lied and obfuscated instead.
Also, if you go and look at the released photos, how much information do you think is actually visible? The cover letter showing classification and such is not (generally) itself classified.
You are acting on the simple expedient of treating him as guilty... not even until proven innocent at this point, just guilty, period.
1. People at the national archive claimed that Trump had things he should not have. Claimed.
2. Trump invited people from the national archives to come and look at what was and was not at Mar-a-Lago. They did.
3. He let them take some boxes of documents. They asked him to put a lock on the storage facility the rest were being kept at. He did.
4. There was an open invitation to further dialogue and visits.
5. A raid was conducted based on a warrant issued by a judge who had a known conflict of interest, and the FBI claims that he still had documents that he should not. This claim was not proven, and Trump's legal team claims that everything he had was appropriate for him to have. There are provisions in law for him to take at least some documents with him.
Are you not aware of any of these facts?