Trump's tweet on 'total' declassification of Russia docs not an order, White House tells judge

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The president tweeted that he had 'fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents' related to the Russia investigation. His chief of staff has told a judge that the president didn't mean it literally to make the information public.

In his court declaration, Meadows said Trump's tweet wasn't about allowing the nation to see the documents; rather, it was about U.S. Attorney General William Barr being able to release them.

aimed at unearthing documents from the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Much of the information that has been released so far, including FBI notes from interviews with top White House and Trump campaign officials, has been heavily redacted. The suit also seeks an unredacted version of Mueller's report.

“It seems to me when a president makes a clear, unambiguous statement of what his intention is, that I can’t rely on the White House Counsel’s Office saying, ‘Well, that was not his intent,’”“I think the American public has a right to rely on what the president says his intention is,” added Walton, a former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

 

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