GOP Rep. McCaul excuses TFG, "Presidents live by different rules."

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON – The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Sunday he didn't personally agree with former President Donald Trump's decision to store classified documents at Mar-a-Lago but said presidents live by a "different set of rules."

"I have lived in the classified world most of my professional career, I personally wouldn’t do that," Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said on ABC's This Week. "But I'm not the president of the United States. But he has a different set of rules that apply to him."

McCaul was referring to the broad power presidents have to declassify documents. Trump, whose Florida club was searched by the FBI last month, has asserted that he declassified the documents that agents found there. But others, including Trump's former attorney general, Bill Barr, say they find that explanation "unlikely."

"I know they were taken out of the White House while he was president and whether or not he declassified those documents remains to be seen," McCaul said on Sunday. "He says he did. I don’t have all the facts there."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-mccaul-on-classified-documents-at-mar-a-lago-i-personally-wouldn-t-do-that/ar-AA11sme2

[Aristus]

1. That did NOT seem to be Republican policy when Bill Clinton was President.

IOKIYAR...

[badhair77]

9. My first thought.

There were no different rules for Bill Clinton. Let’s see what they do if R’s take charge with the midterms and they go after Biden and his family.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. He would be singing a much different tune if it was a Democrat. We see through your

bullshit Mikey.

[Mz Pip]

3. Presidents are not Kings.

I thought we settled that in 1776.

[rsdsharp]

8. And Donald Trump is not President.

He hasn’t been since noon, January 20,2021.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Great photo of McCaul

[EnergizedLib]

5. Time for a history lesson

The Supreme Court showed in United States v. Nixon in 1974 in United States v. Nixon that the president is *not* above the law, and not even this Extreme Court which has the deck heavily stacked in their favor, seems to go along with the Big Lie or the records on January 6.

He had the ability to declassify between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021, and even things (like nuclear secrets) he couldn’t unilaterally declassify.

He is not president, and cannot declassify anything after 12 p.m. on January 20, 2021.

You would think somebody who was in the classified world and in Congress would know better. I guess not.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. No, they don't. They pull their pants down like the rest of us when we're in the restroom.

They should be treated and should act like the rest of us, obey the law, and such. These thugs are twisting and bending their bodies in order to come up w/ any scenario that would seemingly make sense for why tRUMP had these highly classified (and other docs) at MAL.

I personally think he was going to sell them and has already sold some.

TRAITOR!

[Liberal In Texas]

7. "Presidents live by different rules." No, dictators do. n/t

[MiniMe]

10. Only 1 President lives by different rules

Clinton didn't, W didn't, Obama didn't, Biden won't, only tRump.

[czarjak]

11. Special Exemption Status is a Republican's favorite perk?

[kentuck]

12. Complicit

No business in the Congress.

[blueinredohio]

13. Martha doesn't help things.

I hate it when she hosts the show.

[spanone]

14. ...not according to Merrick Garland, mike.

"No Person is Above the Law"

[The Unmitigated Gall]

15. Yes,yes,yes...

Whatever THIS republiscum president did, at THIS particular time is excusable…blah blah blah…diff’rent set o’ rules…blah blah blah…

Wait a minute…is our President ENDANGERING THE NATION with a TAN SUIT???

[bluestarone]

16. Can this IDIOT name ONE president that

DID what this ASSHOLE did?