Guys. I haven't stopped crying since we got this modmail. It's over?? The FBI raid on Trump's house—that means he can't run in 2024?? What was in that safe!!! A tear-stained confession to all his crimes? I feel totally crushed and need your suppor—OH GOD, I CAN'T TYPE FROM LAUGHING. What is this??
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Leftwing fan fiction is hilarious.
I replied to him asking for clarification to a number of his points. He obviously has done his homework. I'm Canadian so I can't carry around an actual-size US Constitution (the pocket-sized one is my everyday Constitutional carry). Maybe there are details in the fine print or the Constitution's bibliography and footnotes that I missed. It's a living document, right? But WHERE does it live?? Did Trump have it in his basement? Is that what they were after?? And getting raided by the FBI! That means you can't run for President, right?
I ARE SO CONFUSED. I'm sure he will reply and clarify for us all.
It is true that you can't steal documents but declassed documents are not able to be stolen. They're in the public domain. The Constitution does outline that this prohibits running for office, but like all the FBI/DOJ "evidence" against Trump, it can't be made up nonsense for it to survive judicial review.
An FBI raid does not prohibit you from running for office! Possessing classified documents does not prohibit you from running for office! You have to be CONVICTED of a felony to prevent running for office! This raid is so far from meaning that Trump can't run for office, it's laughable.
That's not entirely true. The code is kind of up for interpretation, but it does not state at all that you have to be convicted, it just says if you have taken classified documents and not returned them and they are found in your possession that you're violating 18-2071.
Congress tried to use this to bar Killary from running for president, but congressional scholars argued against it at the time and that was accepted.
18 U.S. Code § 2071 - Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
(a)Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b)Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.