As Twitchy reported, the long search at “The View” to replace the “conservative” position held by Megan McCain eventually led to the Trump administration’s Alyssa Farah Griffin. She’s there to balance the other three flaming liberals with her right-wing arguments.
Now she’s weighing in on the supposed treasure trove of classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI. It’s risky, she says, to argue that it wasn’t illegal because Donald Trump was president and could declassify anything he wanted at any time. Plus, it sets up the right of any future president to unilaterally declassify the most sensitive national security secrets.
“It’s not illegal because he was president” is a very, very risky take for Republicans. As is arguing that any future president has a unilateral right to declassify the most sensitive national security secrets in America.
— Alyssa Farah Griffin 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@Alyssafarah) August 26, 2022
Farah Griffin shut off replies to her tweet, so get ready for some quote-tweets:
“My name is Alyssa and I pretend not to understand very clear-cut and well-established laws so that they will let me be on The View.” https://t.co/qw4gFSZ0kQ
— The Partyman (@PartymanRandy) August 27, 2022
Another healthy young person who never served her country in uniform offers her opinions related to that service and they are absolutely welcome at The View and similar cesspools of commie foolishness. https://t.co/VorgYLVbPR
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 27, 2022
Uh no. Presidents historically have had unilateral authority to declassify anything they want anytime they want for any reason they want.
No permission or special process required. https://t.co/GeBtk2jNLn— 🍊███ ███████ ████ ██████████🍊 (@Harry_The_Tech) August 27, 2022
The president absolutely has complete authority to do so. https://t.co/fqSBSGsRNP
— smarter than redacted (@smart314159) August 27, 2022
They always *have* had that power.
How can you be this obtuse? https://t.co/uRqegJCtqa
— Jeff Weimer (@Jeff_Weimer) August 27, 2022
Any future president has a unilateral right to declassify the most sensitive national security secrets in America, and most of them should be declassified. https://t.co/3xNe6o7Lh7
— Area Man (@lheal) August 27, 2022
Except that it is legal and true for every President in history. https://t.co/nPE9ZUWCqV
— WhereAreTheMen? 💪🔥 (@VoxVoltaire) August 27, 2022
"Stating real things that are real is a risky move because it implies the real things that are real are actually real, which…is…bad? What was I talking about again?" – @Alyssafarah https://t.co/D4eRbgn8uj
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) August 27, 2022
But, presidents do have a unilateral statutory authority to declassify the most sensitive national security secrets in America. https://t.co/3ahXDTgkaP
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) August 27, 2022
Any President at any time has full authority to declassify anything he wants.
It's literally one of the biggest perks of the office. https://t.co/p5UX3tMg6i
— Big_A (@asomer) August 27, 2022
This has always been true.
The alternative is that the President is subordinate to career bureaucratic "experts" in authority.
Of course that's what Progressives think/want. https://t.co/jZDGGO9E76
— Mike Belcher (@MikeBelcher14) August 27, 2022
The President literally has this power.
Wait til you find out the President can shut down an agency like the FBI with a pen stroke. https://t.co/iTd2PUpkQx— Patrick Johnson (@chickensith) August 27, 2022
The risky Republican strategy of (checks notes) actually acknowledging the law. https://t.co/r8hPXd2TXG
— Small Metal Owl (@SmallMetalOwl) August 27, 2022
Your daily reminder that 99.9% of "Sensitive National Security Secrets" are simply documents that detail embarrassing government crimes and corruption. https://t.co/5HfqwwhXiw
— Spiraling To Dystopia (@aikiboy2k) August 27, 2022
I'm sure you'll provide a perfect example of a most sensitive national security secret that Trump questionably declassified. https://t.co/fx4gr3z2ku
— Existential Pearl Diver (@davetv28) August 27, 2022
We're not arguing that any future president has a unilateral right (authority, actually) to declassify the most sensitive national security secrets in America.
We're arguing that ALL Presidents past and future have had that authority. https://t.co/NfIbAt7h0X
— XBradTC (@xbradtc) August 27, 2022
Yes, President Ron DeSantis will also have the Constitutional right to declassify anything he wants, any time he wants. Barack Obama had it, Bill Clinton had it, Joe Biden has it. It’s not a “very, very risky take.”
Related:
The View’s ‘pet conservative’ Alyssa Farah Griffin shames the RIGHT for ‘rhetoric’ after FBI raids Trump’s home (Dana Loesch ain’t havin’ NONE of it)https://t.co/P8EPkVqrCz
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 9, 2022
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