@CalltoActivism Congratulations on your engagement! The ring doesn’t matter. That lady doesn’t matter. Only your relationship does. I’m sure yours will last a lifetime!
@nytimes@TheAthletic Schill isn’t up to job if this is his response to the scandal on this scale: slap wrist of the head coach, reverse course and fire Fitzgerald, but hide results of the investigation and claim it wasn’t that bad because he doesn’t know of any physical injuries. Come on, now…
Under the previous Administration, construction of manufacturing facilities in America only grew by 2%.
Under President Biden, it’s grown by nearly 100% in just two years.
Today will be a day that I remember forever. As President Biden finished speaking at the Safer Communities Summit he let us know that he could only take pictures in front of sections of the auditorium due to an incoming storm. As he walked around the front isle to take the group photos he saw me and the picture of my pops who was murdered. He gave me the Joe Biden look, (IYKYK) grabbed my shoulder, looked me in my eyes and said “You know It’s fathers day”.. there was some more conversation, he grabbed and held the picture of my dad and made his WH photographers take a picture with me and the photo of my dad. He looked at me and said “you are his twin” as he walked away.
I was speechless and I still can’t believe it. President Biden is one of the most genuine elected officials you can ever meet and he will listen to you and your story. I can’t wait to get that picture… It’ll be framed and saved forever. Out of the times that I’ve met and talked to him this day is by far the most special. Happy Father’s Day to my pops and happy Father’s Day to Joe Biden. #SaferCommunitiesSummit
Presidential Records Act of 1978 was passed by indignant Congress after Ford made a sweetheart secret deal with Nixon that would have allowed him to keep his tapes and papers--even destroy the incriminating ones. Since then, Presidents don't own their docs. We Americans do.
There is a lot of disinformation coming out of right-wing media about the Trump Indictment.
Here's how to push back against their key points.
Please read and share broadly.
No, the Presidential Records Act (PRA) does not justify Trump’s behavior.
While Trump and his legal team have posited that the PRA allows Trump to decide unilaterally if any document is personal, and thus legally hold onto it, this is simply not the case. When Trump took documents to Mar-a-Lago, the handling of any classified document, no matter its status under the PRA, was also subject to the limits of Executive Order 13526, which Trump did not follow.
No, Trump’s declaration that he had a standing policy of declassification is baseless.
At least 18 former top Trump administration officials have also contradicted Trump’s claim that he had standing declassification order, which he has alleged as a defense, calling this claim “laughable,” “ridiculous,” “total nonsense,” and even “bullsh*t.”
No, presidents do not have unilateral power to declassify documents relating to national security.
Trump did not follow the specific rules and procedures governed by Executive Order 13526.
Trump could have abrogated the Executive Order when he was president, but he did not, so its rules govern his post-presidential conduct.
No, there is no credible evidence to suggest that Trump took the steps necessary to declassify the documents.
Trump and his allies have claimed repeatedly in public that he declassified some or all of the documents bearing classification markings that were recovered from MAL—but there is simply no evidence that he did.
No president or former president has the power to declassify documents simply by removing them from The White House or thinking they are declassified.
No, Trump can’t claim ignorance of the rules regarding declassification.
NARA has provided the DOJ with 16 records showing that Trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process—according to reports.
No, Trump is also not being held to a different standard than President Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Given Trump’s pattern of statements and actions showing he intended to take the documents upon leaving the White House and the mountain of evidence that he obstructed the government’s efforts to recover them, it is clear that he violated Executive Order 13526, which governs classified information.
#TrumpIndictedAgain on 38 counts.