{"id":1605663,"date":"2022-08-14T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T18:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605663"},"modified":"2022-08-14T14:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T18:18:14","slug":"trump-records-negotiator-former-president-in-bureaucratic-battle-over-classified-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-records-negotiator-former-president-in-bureaucratic-battle-over-classified-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Records Negotiator: Former President in \u2018Bureaucratic Battle\u2019 Over Classified Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-records-negotiator-former-president-in-bureaucratic-battle-over-classified-documents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605663&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former White House official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kash-patel\">Kash Patel<\/a> on Sunday revealed former President Donald Trump has been involved in a battle with the federal government to declassify documents before last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> raid.<\/p>\n<p>Patel, who was a top official in the Department of Defense, said Trump declassified numerous documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump made me his representative a month ago, and we\u2019ve been in a bureaucratic battle,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6310873817112#sp=show-clips\">Fox News<\/a> on Sunday morning. \u201cWe found whole sets of documents we got out to the American public \u2026 about 60 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patel, who hosts \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/c-kashs-corner\">Kash\u2019s Corner<\/a>\u201d for Epoch TV, added that Trump \u201cmade it his mission to declassify and be transparent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn October 2020, he issued a sweeping declassification order for every single Russiagate document and every single [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton document,\u201d Patel said, adding that \u201cwhole sets of documents\u201d were declassified under his watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this is a key fact \u2026 President Trump, as a sitting president, is a unilateral authority for declassification,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe can literally stand over a set of documents and say \u2018these are now declassified,\u2019 and that is done with definitive action immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patel further noted that due to the Department of Justice\u2019s latest actions and the FBI\u2019s ongoing investigation, Americans \u201cwill never be allowed to see the Russiagate docs or any other docs that President Trump lawfully declassified, and they will hide it from the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Other Details <\/p>\n<p>Late last week, a U.S. magistrate judge ordered the release of the FBI warrant and property record used to raid Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. The documents showed the FBI seized alleged classified documents and said the former president may be under investigation for possibly violating the 1917 Espionage Act and obstruction of justice, although neither the Justice Department nor FBI have released the affidavit in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House official\u00a0Kash Patel on Sunday revealed former President Donald Trump has been involved in a battle with the federal government to declassify documents before last week\u2019s FBI raid. Patel, who was a top official in the Department of Defense, said Trump declassified numerous documents. \u201cPresident Trump made me his representative a month ago, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}