{"id":1624187,"date":"2022-08-27T13:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T17:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1624187"},"modified":"2022-08-27T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T17:50:16","slug":"mar-a-lago-affidavit-acknowledges-trump-admin-officials-claim-that-president-trump-previously-declassified-seized-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mar-a-lago-affidavit-acknowledges-trump-admin-officials-claim-that-president-trump-previously-declassified-seized-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar-a-Lago affidavit acknowledges Trump admin. official\u2019s claim that President Trump previously declassified seized docs"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fmar-a-lago-affidavit-acknowledges-trump-admin-officials-claim-that-president-trump-previously-declassified-seized-docs%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=1624187&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--><div id=\"attachment_2742064\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2742064\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2742064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AP22238600702694-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The affidavit by the FBI in support of obtaining a search warrant for former President Donald Trump&#039;s Mar-a-Lago estate is photographed Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched Trump&#039;s estate to look for classified documents. (AP Photo\/Jon Elswick)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2742064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The affidavit by the FBI in support of obtaining a search warrant for former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate is photographed Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched Trump\u2019s estate to look for classified documents. (AP Photo\/Jon Elswick)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:12 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, August 27, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Lawmakers are outraged at the heavy redactions in the highly anticipated affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for the raid on Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>20 of the 38-pages that were released on Friday were either significantly or fully redacted. However, page-19 of the affidavit may point to the can of worms that the Department of Justice (DOJ) knows it opened by ransacking the 45th President\u2019s Florida home earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Page 19 cited a Breitbart article from May 5, 2022. That article stated that former Trump administration official, Kash Patel, said the 15-boxes of documents had already been declassified but that the classification markings had not been updated.<\/p>\n<p>Patel maintained that President Trump retained and declassified those documents in anticipation of leaving government. He said that Trump did this because he thought the American public should have the right to read it for themselves.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe President, by law, is the ultimate arbiter of the classification authority. If he says it, it\u2019s declassified,\u201d stated Patel. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t need to go through the bureaucratic rigmarole (and) be written down in appropriate style. That\u2019s not what the constitution says.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Patel also vocalized that reports claiming that Trump took classified information are completely false and is just another disinformation campaign against him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump appointed Patel alongside John Solomon in June as his representative for access to Presidential records. As the former Pentagon Chief of Staff, Patel explained that all previously classified documents have classification markings on them. This simply means they used to be classified. He added that \u201cgovernment simpletons\u201d did not follow the President\u2019s orders to have them marked as \u201cdeclassified,\u201d which he did and has the unilateral authority to do.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen these rubes get in the way because they say \u2018ohh well you know so-and-so didn\u2019t sign the letter, White House counsel didn\u2019t do this\u2019 that\u2019s a farce,\u201d remarked Patel. \u201cAnd not only did the President do it by writing in October of 2020, he did it verbally at least, to the best of my recollection, multiple times in the whole sets of documents.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Patel did not go into specifics about the document, but he said they contain information on Russiagate and the Ukraine impeachment fiasco which Trump wanted the public to have access to. The former Pentagon Chief of Staff suggested that the documents may have selectively be leaked to advance a false political narrative. Patel posted a statement on Truth Social shortly after the redacted affidavit was released.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From Kash Patel on Truth Social: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Upg4d7lPAv\">pic.twitter.com\/Upg4d7lPAv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kristina Wong \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@kristina_wong) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kristina_wong\/status\/1563294251231821825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/redacted-mar-a-lago-affidavit-released\/\">Redacted Mar-A-Lago Affidavit Released<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The affidavit by the FBI in support of obtaining a search warrant for former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate is photographed Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched Trump\u2019s estate to look for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"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-1624187","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\/1624187","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\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624187\/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=1624187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}