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Omg! Those things.. if you dont bring a snack while doing them.

Powerful people are above the law. George Bush and Obama were war criminals by Illegally torturing and killing people. Obama also lied under oath about surveillance programs. Hillary burnt documents that were intially unclassified according to Comey and then Comey was stood down since the state department said they were classified. My point is is that they're all above the law. People just believe they're not despite history repeating itself over and over

Executive privilege. He took them, and in the end, nothing can or will happen, because of Execuitve Privilege. You hate trump, so you’ll certainly disagree with me, but if this had been Obama, and I was saying he couldn’t take those documents, you would argue executive privilege. Just watch, nothing will come from this. If anything, I think trump took them, because he knew exactly what democrats would do, and trump can play victim on his campaign. Trump is always baiting the democrats, and they fall for it. He always beats them at their own games. Always. Mark my words, this will fizzle out, and democrats will merely accuse trump of some other crimes. This has been going on for 6 years. The way I see it, is the establishment are abusing their powers to attempt to remove political opposition. That’s actually set a horrible prescient for our country, it will create chaos (possible civil war), and inevitably it will lead to overthrowing our government.

What if he didn't know what classified means You know like when you had no problem when Hillary did it Except she destroyed them to avoid prosecution Idiot

Jason you are why America is on fire. Go study and learn. Alll Presidents have the right to take their documents. Let’s look at Obammy and Bull Clinton. Go read you willfully ignorant fool

lol you have no clue

The president himself can declassify certain documents. The president has that power and privilege. Funny, the public has no clue what these documents are, but they are claiming they cannot be declassified. How do you folks know it’s not a log of the president moving from one room to another, or a log of phone calls making tee times? People have no clue whatsoever, but they are making stuff up or listening to the media, which has a 100% rate of being incorrect about trump. You going to listen to an entirely that has a major track record of being incorrect? If you’re that gullible, do you want to buy a bridge in NYC I have for sale? Really good deal!

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The same individual that said "Folks that plead the 5th are clearly hiding something and guilty of a crime"

The Chump declassify nonsense is his typical serial lying BS. Chump was long gone from office and had zero authority over anything by the time he lied and made up the declassify nonsense.

Well we aren't in his administration anymore so it doesn't actually matter, by this standard hes not a hypocrite

I'm pretty sure it's just a ploy by obiden to keep President Trump from running again so they can continue to steal our money with all of the scams they put in bills.

He's not that stupid and actually cares about our country obiden is the criminal not Trump

That's hilarious 😂

And office and cupboards where they found empty folders

lol

Laughing out loud

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

the President is the apex of classification. The entire classification system exists with the president at the very tip of the pyramid. All intelligence agencies exist to provide the President with information in the PDB. The President can snap his fingers and declassify any document he wants for any reason they want and no one has to sign off on it because no one is above the President. If Biden wanted to declassify all Area 51 documents there is no general or no group of people form the FBI, CIA, DNI, NSA or whatever agency that can stop him.

@jim Majority of conservatives are immune to reality, majority of Americans are thankfully not.

This is the most accurate response. Finally someone with a functioning brain.

@wall street journal +𝟒𝟒𝟕𝟒𝟏𝟖𝟑𝟐𝟏𝟑𝟑𝟔

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

lol

Wrong.

He has 12 years to give back

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

@@bigbrotherisasob The documents belong to the original classifiers (US military, CIA, FBI and so on), presidential records generated between Jan 20 2017 to Jan 20 2021 go to the National Archives per PRA, only Trump's personal files (personal letters, communications with his personal lawyers, (not white house lawyers), family go with trump)

What crime?

@@ROCKLIKEACOBB pay attention

@@ufoinsider6932 Oh, I am paying attention, and it's so gross. Some of you "Americans" approve of unconstitutional search and seizure and the NON STOP DNCFBI investigation of an American citizen...because you don't like him. In the USA, we don't investigate PEOPLE looking for a crime. We investigate CRIMES looking for the perpetrator. But you people....wow, I only hope you receive the same "justice" And none of you can name a crime, you only HOPE there is a crime. Once you realize the DNCFBI has led you on a hoax AGAIN, will you cry? will you riot? or will you finally, finally, finally figure out what is happening. Pay attention. Just like the 302's read just before they launched Crossfire Hurricane, "there is no 'there' there".

@@ROCKLIKEACOBB ok there MAGA cultist 🤡

@@ROCKLIKEACOBB probably failing to comply with the Presidential Records Act for a start.

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

About sums it up.

Was biden potus when he brought hundreds of boxes of docs home? I gu Edit: it's not like they're gonna give us the actual answer on Trump or biden either way, for, reasons

They don't need to file paperwork to declassify documents. It's an informal process that requires zero consultation with any other entity and requires zero paperwork. Did you even watch the video lol?

@lilsprite103 " they" change laws to get Trump and ignore laws to protect clinton/biden etc. Sounds like a legitimate administration.

Please cite the law that defines how the Executive does this.

@@nuts_fatteningTrump said on audio that he didn’t declassify the document and that he could no longer declassify it because he is no longer President.

It’s also entirely false. He didn’t declassify them

Ok smarty, what are the contents of the documents specifically? How does classification of documents work? What is protocol? Are all documents considered classified until the president declassified them? Some of these documents could be very meaningless stuff that are automatically classified as secret. I believe the content is going to eventually come out, and it’s going to be nothing really important. Will people that jumped up and down pointing finger at trump apologize for jumping the gun, or will they be good little minions and focus on the next shiny object the media dangles in front of them. The media and democrats have been 100% wrong about trump, as every allegation has fallen flat, yet the minions that support the establishment keep believing the media. That is basically just how ignorant some people are in this country. They will believe anything they hear and become outraged over it, and when it pans out to be nothing, they will forget it, and move on to the next fairytale.

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

@@ufoinsider6932 How would you know that? Why wouldn't he have declassified them? Y'all are so desperate to get Trump on this it's freakin pathetic 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Your feelings don't matter though chief. The President has the unilateral plenary authority to declassify vested in him by the Constitution and backed up by legal precedent. There is no crime here. And you're assuming the worst about what's in the documents without a shred of evidence.

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I, HEREBY, DECLASSIFY THE NUCLEAR CODE! I will now take it home with me with no malicious intentions whatsoever.

You can't just yell "declassification" that's not how this works

@@duerf5826 its 0000, give it a try.

You sound like a southern bell " I do Declare"

you mean what _should have_ happened to all of it? like, once ALL of them were turned over to NARA - classed or unclassed - deadline of jan 20, 2021? OR do you mean how classed docs should have been handled prior to that, full stop?

Exactly. Look what happened with Russian Hoax- they made it up and tried to impeach an innocent President. I’m still waiting for all involved to go down!

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

"probably $2 billion" aka _precisely_ that amount

Irrelevant. None of the statutes cited in the warrant make any distinction based on classification.

Since the law only says Government documents and not classified Government documents, Trump having them in his possession became illegal from 1/20/2021 when Trump became a private citizen.

IF he did..there would be a paper trail. I wish everyone would watch this to understand his statement of waving a KFC drumstick and SAYING' they are declassified DOES NOT make them so until ALL procedures are followed. He came out with that BS the day after the search...The reason this new lawyer did not even mention 'his declassification' in the latest answer written to the judge...is that they know it could ne disproven in 5 minutes.

How are US classified documents DECLASSIFIED? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HE0tsm4x4rk.html

@@jadawin01 Trump can legally possess them as Personal Records. Also, he can store them at his own secure facility while they are technically in the custody of NARA. Just like Obama did. You folks need to get informed.

Any President can declassify any document in any way for any reason they want. There is no form they have to fill out. The President also decides what is personal and what is considered presidential records.

@jim yes

@@SweetSpot909 How would anyone know if something was declassified? Hillary Clinton could claim the documents on her computer were declassified.

@@madhavyu The President is unique in that their power to declassify any document is absolute. Hillary or any other cabinet member does not have that power. All documents are treated and assumed to be at their classification level until someone in informed they're not classified anymore. Any President can literally point to a entire warehouse at Area 51 and say every document in this secret warehouse is now declassified and that's the end of it.

@@SweetSpot909 the video just clearly explained it doesn’t work that way

Correct, this video is intentionally misleading. It didn't all of a sudden become a crime for Presidents to declassify documents and move them to a personal storage location. Every past President has done that. But all of the rules and precedents are different now because it's Trump and they hate him.

Yes, and can I get some of those declassified documents, and that box of Time Magazines you see at the right side of the picture, and where can I buy that rug?

@@pauljewel6988 Fair.

Good questions that the media never discusses. And if SCI documents can only be viewed in a SCIF, how did trump get them and take them to Mar-a-Lago ?

@@thewolfdoctor761 Can fallen fruit return to branch? (Charlie Chan)

Every classified document that has its classification printed on it, requires the reclassification or declassification printed on it as well, along with when it was reclassified or declassified, and who did it, as well as what office that person was in so that its validity may be verified.

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

Yeah they'll get a few months of news cycles out of this, then at the end, wah wahh. No charges.

True Trumper I see, just because they were empty doesn’t mean the documents aren’t located somewhere else. Jesus Christ!!!! USE YOUR BRAIN. If that was the case why didn’t he say I took empty folders rather than having the DOJ build a case against him.. I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS READING THIS BS.

Classified is actually not a marking The classification markings are Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret

@@fomalhauto yeah I realize that Einstein I didn't want to type out each type of classification, it's irrelevant anyway, they were all declassified

@@TheGlamourChiick bunch of empty folders, could've been extras, could've been empty after documents were taken by FBI back in June, you don't just get to invent evidence that doesn't exist yet pal

@@jasons73 you are the type of person who listen to people who tell you want you want to hear, regardless of the facts and evidence. You are a follower who obviously don’t have the mental competency to think on their own, the world needs people like you. I’m going to pray for you buddy.

Then you'd have to prosecute every former president, don't act like this is a new thing.

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

Why did Obama create a museum in Chicago 2021 with over 30,000 classified and unclassified documents?

The Saudis have a few billion reasons why

One theory put out there was to use as bargaining chips in case he was ever found guilty of other crimes.

@@dam8087 More probably Russians and Chinese.

@@madhavyu Exactly, or perhaps the Saudis could more easily get hold of those secrets and sell them to the Chinese/Russians or exchange them for "favors".

Donnie is counting on it.

His extremist plants would be willing to seek out America again. SCOTUS is compromised as badly as the orange traitor

Charges haven't even been filed in a lower court yet. Slow down. Take a breather.

Cult

Indeed. the mental gymnastics that his followers are performing so entertaining. They are so desperate to believe that Trump didn't do something that betrayed the country. The cope coming from them is so strong that it could possibly sustain the energy grid or whatever, lol.

sounds like obama

@@callyourgeek All his cult can do is point fingers like a child, that is sad.

@@callyourgeek Then why didn't Trump's DOJ prosecute Obama for these crimes? Crickets...

@@Scarywesley4 because presidents can declassify what they want genius. youre not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you?

@@freedomofspeech4u your ignorance and cult like following liars is pathetically obvious. sharpen your knife, its dull

Agreed. The WSJ got it wrong in this video

False. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a personal record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). You're comparing the President's rights and authorties to classifications and documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment.

@@jasons73 trump wasn't president when he said he wanted to declassify documents lol and no record exists of trump declassify documents

he didn't declassify them though. and he cant just say they are now, he isn't president. no matter how much some want to believe that.

@@DrFaust-pr8vw who said he didn’t declassify them? Te FBI and Intel community who lied to us for years about Russian Collusion? The DNC who cooked up the false Collusion story in the first place? All he has to do legally is say to staff I WANT THIS DECLASSIFIED and it is (as the sitting POTUS) as of that moment.

@@VAMobMember those are conspiracy theories. Please take your medication.

Maybe actually watch the video? Cognitive dissonance is normal but for your own sake you need to push through it.

Lol Hillary destroyed personal emails about a wedding

The 2009 executive order directs the head of the department or agency that originally deemed information classified to oversee declassification reviews, and it sets some standards for them. The executive branch has regulations laying out the process that should be followed, such as a requirement to make sure that other agencies and departments with an interest in the secret are consulted. There are also procedures for the removal of classification markings on documents.

Because it has literally nothing to do with the topic.

@@spacetoast7783 According to you. So how long have you sat on the Supreme Court for?

NARA didn't seize anything... the FBI did.

@@gary_rumain_you_peons Who are you talking to?

@@stephencooper3583 Almost like the NARA isn't a police force.

Leo expertly asked just like Tucker C would, and did you brow wrinkle up like a Chow dog. Don't get me wrong I like your comment

various journalists have FOIA'd "any and all" and gotten responses that range from "nothing found" to "nothing found." (Mother Jones was clever enough to not FOIA the NSA but instead the agencies that feed NSA. like NGA. NGA's response was "nothing found.") p.s. declassifying would vitiate the monetary value of TS, since even foreign entities can use FOIA

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

@@jakelong6860 stop hanging out with butter knives.... its making you the dullest knife in the drawer.

It is precedent. Read Judge Amy Berman Jackson's 2012 decision where she rules that "there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president."

He’s a liar a million times over. There’s absolutely zero reason to believe anything he says

@@ROCKLIKEACOBB That has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Try to keep up.

@@spacetoast7783 🧦🐒

@@spacetoast7783 Yes it does, but since when does the left care about the law?

Going through this issue in detail is sensible. It keeps us from being a state with a sham legal system. ....it also might be the news equivalent of speaking slowly and loudly to someone who's being an idiot.

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

youve nothing but blather. ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

DoD is _not_ the same as IC. military IS equivalent to the DoD. wtaf (are you trying to sound ignorant on purpose?)

Speculation from his former staff is the documents were related to "Spy Gate" with Carter Page, and "Crossfire Hurricane", which would be both embarrassing and incriminating to the FBI, DOJ and possibly CIA. Look those up. The belief is he intended to hold onto them possibly as leverage against the Deep State, and eventually release them to the public.

Yep anything is for sale including family. All done in the name of EGO!!

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

Call your geek.. trump patriots 😂

ill quote jason "Literally false. A President can declare anything he wants to be a Personal Record at his own discretion, anything he takes home is presumed to be a Personal Record as decided in the 2012 court decision Judicial Watch vs NARA (Clinton sock drawer tapes). He can also store documents at his own secure facility while they're in the custody of NARA, same as Obama did. You're comparing the President's rights and authorities to classifications and storing documents to a normal citizen or lower level bureaucrat or official, but a President has much more authority under the Constitution which is backed up by case law. Get informed, then comment."

@@callyourgeek If Trump had the ability to simply declassify them, why does he and his team claim that the investigation was staged, with planted evidence? You can’t have it both ways. “No president has the right to retain presidential records after he or she leaves office. The 1978 Presidential Records Act, which requires presidents to turn over documents to the National Archives at the end of their administration, lacks an enforcement mechanism, but there are multiple federal laws regarding the handling of classified documents. Trump signed one such law in 2018, increasing the penalty for "unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material" from one year to five years in prison. there’s a formal process for doing declassification, Trump has not used. documents that were returned to the National Archives from Mar-a-Lago this year were identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes” from Mar-a-Lago.” Kash Patel, a Pentagon chief of staff during the Trump administration, told Breitbart News in May that the documents previously recovered from Mar-a-Lago had been declassified by Trump, but their markings were not updated. “The Presidential Records Act and other similar statutes constrain President Trump’s ability to do what he wishes with at least some of the official documents from his tenure, regardless of whether those documents include sensitive national security information.” one of the laws that prosecutors could theoretically bring to bear against Trump is 18 U.S. Code § 793 - "Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information." The law penalizes "Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book ... or note relating to the national defense" who "through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed." It also penalizes someone who "willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it." “In this instance, the National Archives said it had been negotiating with Trump's team for the return of documents since last year, and Moss noted that Trump's lawyer acknowledged they met with Justice Department as recently as early June about records that were still missing.” "[P]art and parcel of any act of declassification is communicating that act to all others who possess the same information, across all federal agencies," Johnson wrote. "This point holds true regardless of whether the information exists in a document, an email, a power point presentation, and even in a government official's mental awareness. Otherwise, what would be the point of a legitimate declassification?" Trump didn’t update original codifiers Obama placed, and can’t stand over documents and say that they’re declassified. The president doesn’t have such authority, as there is a process, especially with defense oriented data. As for Clinton’s stock drawer tapes, tell me where defense oriented data is there. Did the National Archives request the tapes back? Did Trump request to take said documents from the National archives? No.” Did Clinton’s sock drawer tapes include sensitive information to American security? No. There’s a process to declassification, as per the 1978 presidential records act, which enforces actions to handling information. Especially if it’s still classified, and hasn’t been updated. Which is wasn’t. As per the act which “establishes that Presidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.” Which also didn’t occur as NARA requested access to the documents and information, which was not given. Get informed, then comment.

@@aln5832 lol you obviously from your comments and replies have no idea what you are talking about.

@@callyourgeek Looks like: you should go back to school, learn how to differentiate bills and regulation in legislation, and Presidential responsibilities. Such responsibilities were not followed in this case. Then comment.

LOL, Trump Is Still the Democrats' Daddy. Donald Trump isn’t merely living rent-free in Democrats’ heads, he’s building condos there and having the time of his life. The Dems haven’t been able to enjoy one single moment of their “victory” in the 2020 election because Trump is still out there, smiling, and teasing a run in 2024. They wake up thinking about him. They retire to their beds of shame, thinking about him at the end of every day. The House Soviet Select Committee on Daddy Issues, also known as the J6 Committee, exists solely to make up reasons to keep Trump from running for president again because they know that they have no one who can beat him in a fair fight and without a generous assist from a pandemic. Monkeypox to the rescue.

then i played this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ATY3-8PlCRw.html

hmm

im looking up shar pei dog videos

*after a trial finds him guilty

Do you really need to ask?