Did Former President Donald Trump Leak Classified Russia Papers to Conservative Journalist?

[Nevilledog]

https://murraywaas.substack.com/p/exclusive-former-president-donald

Credit...Department of Justice

In the closing days of his presidency— as President Donald J. Trump was preparing to declassify and make public almost a thousand pages of highly classified records pertaining to the FBI investigation into Russia’s covert interference in the 2016 presidential election to help elect him, and defeat Hillary Clinton — he turned to conservative columnist John Solomon for help.

On Jan 14, 2021, less than a week before Trump was to leave office, Solomon excitedly declared on his podcast, “I am here to tell you that, just a little while ago, President Trump authorized the declassification of all remaining FBI documents of the Russia probe to be made public before he leaves office.” Solomon said that the records consisted of a “foot and a half stack tall of documents from the FBI and Justice Department,” which, Solomon promised, would, in turn, contain “bombshell after bombshell.”

Towards that end, on Jan. 19, 2021, the day before he was to leave office, Trump signed a presidential order declaring that the Russia papers were to “be declassified to the maximum extent possible.” The order was signed about 7 p.m., ET.

On the very next day, though, just as Joe Biden was about to take his oath of office, Trump’s then-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, wrote a memo apparently clarifying Trump’s order, indicating that the documents would not be made public anytime soon. Meadows wrote in his Jan. 20, 2021 memo that the White House was “returning the bulk of the... documents to the Department of Justice” because of concerns by the department that their release would violate the Privacy Act.

Despite this, Solomon was able to post a story on his own website, Just the News, on the night of Jan. 19, 2021, and then another the following week, sourced from some of these very same records.

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[tanyev]

1. Bear/Sh*t/Woods?

[onecaliberal]

2. In other news, water is wet.

[Nictuku]

3. What is up with people being so rude?

I'm sorry Nevilledog, I hope you can do the 'water off a duck's back' thing with those previous comments.

No need to be rude. We are among friends, no?


/I/ personally found the information to be useful. It had a link to the source, and a snippet from the article. I could choose (or not) to read it.

Why do yo'all want to make the poster feel bad? Are you insecure? (We can help with that.)

Please be nice to each other. It isn't asking a lot.

[Nevilledog]

4. They're not being rude to me. They're just commenting on Trump's treasonous ways.

Thanks for having my back, but it's not necessary in this circumstance.

[lindysalsagal]

5. Ok, doj: if you haven't already, here's your next subpoena

Let's go!

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Solomon and Fox News reported Hillary "collusion" with Ukraine.

Why Rudy G, John Solomon, OAN, Fox Noise and Dumpy are in Deep Shit.

Exposes Rupert Murdoch & Toadies for the treasonous bastards they are.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215382580

Evidence builds showing Dip’s role at the top of the plot.