Trump in Florida federal court today as his lawyers argue a motion to dismiss the first 32 counts of Florida....basically every charge about retaining documents.
The main thing to discuss is the Presidential Records Act.
Trump's lawyers boldly argued that the PRA gave Trump “virtually unreviewable Article II executive authority to designate the records as personal when, as alleged in the Superseding Indictment, he ’caused’ the materials to be transported out of the White House while he was still in office.”
Smith has countered by saying Trump simply had no such unilateral authority under the PRA.
But Charge 19 deals with Q clearance.
In their February motion to dismiss on grounds of unconstitutional vagueness, Trump lawyers argued the nineteenth willful retention of national defense information count, relating to an “Undated document concerning nuclear weaponry of the United States,” could not stand. They said the special counsel handed them Department of Energy records “indicating that President Trump maintained the ‘Q’ clearance that is relevant to the document charged.”
In his opposition, Smith called the “Q clearance” argument meritless because discovery actually shows the “Q clearance” went away “as a matter of law” when Joe Biden was inaugurated as president.
Because as President Trump would always fly via Air Force One. Even when he did campaign rallies he used Air Force 1. AF1 has a SCIF.
I see no reason a SCIF would ever be installed on a private plane
No, these documents were not declassified.
The documents in presidential libraries are maintained by the national archives. The National Archives routinely deals with classified information. There is a classified reading room at the national archive in College Park, Maryland.
The documents for the Obama library and the documents for the Trump library are maintained by the national archives.
There are two parts to presidential libraries. One is the maintenance of the documents and this is done by NARA. The other is the museum piece which is done by a private foundation.
Trump did not set up a museum piece but there is a Trump presidential library. The files are maintained at the national archives in Maryland. For presidents who have set up museums, their documents are maintained at National archive facilities close to the museum.
Info on the Trump presidential library can be found here. https://www.trumplibrary.gov/
Here's info on how researchers with security clearances can go to the national archives and view classified information. https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/accessioning/research
hmmm, it seems we are about to find out....
AF-1 is a designation. Not a plane.