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personal attack. If somebody just says there's something wrong with you. I mean these are both personal attacks, but it doesn't have to be a comic reference. So if somebody says to Rob Reiner, let's say Rob Reiner doesn't tweet what is the most obvious thing that somebody's going to say if they disagree with his point of view? They're going to say, oh, I guess that's why they called it Meathead wh…
← Previous segment →t to give it credit. If somebody knows where I took that from, you probably read it too. Could you give credit to wherever this came from? I think there was a good addition to the conversation, but it was on a right-leaning website somewhere. Anyway, in my opinion if a president who has full sweeping authority to declassify says take these boxes and put them in my residence, he's declassified them. Who disagrees with me? If the president, who doesn't have to follow any procedure, says take these top secret things and move them to this non-top-secret facility, they're declassified.
Now you could say you don't like that. You can say you don't like it. But how in the world are you going to get a court of 12 people to think that's not the case? Do you think you can get 12 jurors who are going to say, oh no, that's not declassification? Yes, the president can declassify any way he wants. He doesn't have to use any specific words. Doesn't have to write anything down. Doesn't have to do a document. Doesn't need to tell anybody. Doesn't need to tell anybody. Doesn't need to tell anybody. There are no requirements on the president. That's it.
So if you put me on the jury, I'm just going to say I don't know. I mean you can't prove that he didn't declassify them. And by his actions it sure looks like he did. And I would say that's the end of that case. If you can't even know if they're classified or not, why are we even talking about it? Now keep in mind when we talk about it in the news, we're just people talking about it. We can act like we have some certainty that we don't have. Oh, definitely declassified or oh, definitely wasn't. But what if you're a jury? The jury would have to be beyond a reasonable doubt certain that these had not been declassified. How in the world would any jury be sure of that?
If the attorney says he didn't need to follow any rules and by his actions it's obvious he meant them to be declassified, would you agree that if somebody takes something out of a top secret place and intentionally puts it in a low security place, that they have changed the de facto classification? You don't need to get all 12 to agree to that, but there's no way you don't get nine of them to agree. Am I wrong? How in the world do you not get at least some of those 12 to say, you know, that is enough of a gray area that I'm not going to convict somebody on that?
Let's say if he writes it anywhere about or sets of documents, they become immediately declassified. Yeah, so I don't know if he said something that would also qualify, but maybe he did. I mean suppose Trump had said, and this is not in evidence, but suppose he had said to the GSA people who were packing up the boxes, suppose they said hey this is top secret stuff, you know we have to handle it differently. And suppose Trump just said, oh no, just put it in the boxes and send it to Mar-a-Lago. That's declassification, right? In my opinion it would be. So I think he's gonna be fine on that. I don't think there's any legal risk at all on that.
All right, so even Newt Gingrich pointed out that Liz Cheney said, quote, I will do whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office. And Newt says, is it any wonder most of us think the January 6 committee is a Stalinist show trial? She is so bitterly anti-Trump. How could she be trusted? Now again Newt is doing a little mind reading. You know he's looking into her mind and seeing that she's bitterly anti-Trump. But I feel like that's in evidence. The anti-Trump part is clearly in evidence. And the bitter part, it looks bitter to me. I mean I can't read her mind, but if anybody ever looked bitter, that's about as bitter looking as you could ever look.
All right, so pretty sure I covered everything I want to cover. Oh, one oth
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er thing. So I submitted a comic to my syndication company this week and it was rejected for content. And I had to rewrite it and I believe the rewrite has been accepted. So I completely changed the joke. But if you belong to the Locals platform and you're a subscriber, sometime later today you will see the comic that the rest of the world will not see because it's too dangerous apparently. So you…
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