{"id":2006291,"date":"2023-08-20T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-would-expect-meadows-to-have-known-about-standing-order-to-declassify-documents\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:01:39","slug":"pence-would-expect-meadows-to-have-known-about-standing-order-to-declassify-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-would-expect-meadows-to-have-known-about-standing-order-to-declassify-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence assumes Meadows was aware of the declassification directive."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fpence-would-expect-meadows-to-have-known-about-standing-order-to-declassify-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=2006291&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--><h2>Former Vice President Mike Pence on Mark Meadows and Declassification Order<\/h2>\n<p>During an interview \u2062on ABC News&#8217;s This Week, former Vice President Mike Pence expressed his belief that\u200d former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows would have been aware \u200cof former \u2062President \u200cDonald Trump&#8217;s order to declassify documents before leaving the White House. Pence&#8217;s comments came in\u200b response \u2064to Meadows reportedly telling investigators in Special Counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s office that he \u200bdid not\u2064 remember a &#8220;standing order&#8221; from Trump regarding document declassification.<\/p>\n<h3>Pence&#8217;s Expectations<\/h3>\n<p>When asked about Meadows&#8217; knowledge of the\u2063 declassification order, Pence stated, &#8220;I would expect so.&#8221; However, he also \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abc-political-director-rick-klein-calls-for-cleansing-pro-trump-movement\/\" title=\"ABC Political Director Rick Klein calls for \u2018cleansing\u2019 pro-Trump movement\">expressed concern<\/a> about\u2062 potential leaks from\u2062 the justice \u200cdepartment, saying, &#8220;But again, I sure hope we&#8217;re not getting \u2062back into the lane \u200bof leaks from the justice department about these cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Pence Highlights Special Counsel\u2062 Investigation<\/h3>\n<p>Pence pointed out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-would-expect-meadows-to-have-known-about-standing-order-to-declassify-documents\/\" title=\"Pence assumes Meadows was aware of the declassification directive.\">ongoing special counsel\u2062 investigation<\/a> \u200binto \u200bPresident Joe Biden&#8217;s handling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">classified documents<\/a>, emphasizing that there has been no significant information released regarding it.\u200d He stated, \u2064&#8221;We haven&#8217;t\u2062 heard a peep out of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more about this topic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Pence&#8217;s Stance on\u200c Trump&#8217;s Legal Situation<\/h2>\n<p>Regarding his potential\u200b 2024 presidential\u200c rival, \u200dPence asserted \u2063that former President Trump deserves a presumption of\u2064 innocence and his day in court.\u2062 He declined\u200c to comment on the latest leaks or reports emerging from the legal process.<\/p>\n<p>Trump currently faces 40 criminal charges related to \u200bthe mishandling of classified materials\u2064 found in boxes at\u2064 his\u200b Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. A \u200bsuperseding indictment has added new charges against the former president and his longtime aide Walt\u2064 Nauta. Additionally, a new\u200d figure named Carlos\u200b De Oliveira, a maintenance worker at Trump&#8217;s \u2062Florida \u200cestate,\u2062 has been charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former VP Mike Pence stated that he anticipated Mark Meadows, ex-White House chief of staff, to be aware of Donald Trump&#8217;s directive to declassify documents. 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