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Trump admits ‘various people’ saw ‘papers and boxes’ brought from White House

www.cnbc.com Trump admits ‘various people’ saw ‘papers and boxes’ brought from White House

Former President Donald Trump faces the prospect of multiple, separate criminal trials in 2024, as he seeks the GOP presidential nomination.

“Of course they did! They may have been the boxes etc. that were openly and plainly brought from the White House, as is my right under the Presidential Records Act,” Trump posted on social media.

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If it's a law they have a legal duty, your hedging doesn't particularly make sense.
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adjective
le·gal ˈlē-gəl 
Synonyms of legal
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: of or relating to law
She has many legal problems.
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a legal government
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a corporation is a legal but not a real person
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especially : STATUTORY
the legal test of mental capacity—K. C. Masteller
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The referee said it was a legal play.
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a bottle … that some legal friend had sent him—J. G. Cozzens
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A legal fiction is something assumed in law to be a fact regardless of the truth of that assumption.
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- I'm not getting into semantics, I'm talking about the original post I replied to, namely
  he has a clear duty to protect their secrecy
  Which is talking about a duty in derived sense, not a codified duty.
  
  He does, nothing you've offered implies or states otherwise.
  No, it has to do with a law or rather a series of them an oath to office and an oath to maintain national secrets.
  
  That's the definition of a derived duty, and it isn't what I'd call "law."
  
  18 usc 1924 Is a law that created a duty, a legal duty.
  (a)
  Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.
  You say you don't want to play semantics but that's your entire argument.
  
  You actually don't understand my argument. What you're talking about now is WHY I think trump broke the law. It has nothing to do with oaths of office. Oaths of office do NOT create a legal duty. That code, as well as the administrative law around
  without authority
  from that code is what creates a legal duty.
  
  I understand your argument, don't be patronizing.
  No I don't care what you think about Trump or if he broke the law.
  It does, you swear to follow the law they make you take it specifically so they can increase penalties, it quite literally increases legal responsibility.

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