ā€œOf course they did! They may have been the boxes etc. that were openly and plainly brought from the White House, as is my right under the Presidential Records Act,ā€ Trump posted on social media.

  • Madison420@lemmy.world
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    If itā€™s a law they have a legal duty, your hedging doesnā€™t particularly make sense.

    legal

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    adjective

    leĀ·ā€‹galĀ Ėˆlē-gəlĀ 

    Synonyms ofĀ legal

    1

    :Ā of or relating to law

    She has manyĀ legalĀ problems.

    2

    a

    :Ā deriving authority from or founded on lawĀ :Ā DE JURE

    aĀ legalĀ government

    b

    :Ā having a formal status derived from law often without a basis in actual factĀ :Ā TITULAR

    a corporation is aĀ legalĀ but not a real person

    c

    :Ā established by law

    especiallyĀ :Ā STATUTORY

    theĀ legalĀ test of mental capacityā€”K. C. Masteller

    3

    :Ā conforming to or permitted by law or established rules

    The referee said it was aĀ legalĀ play.

    Fishing in this lake isĀ legal.

    4

    :Ā recognized or made effective by a court of law as distinguished from a court of equity

    5

    :Ā of, relating to, or having the characteristics of the profession of law or of one of its members

    a bottle ā€¦ that someĀ legalĀ friend had sent himā€”J. G. Cozzens

    6

    :Ā created by the constructions of the law

    AĀ legalĀ fiction is something assumed in law to be a fact regardless of the truth of that assumption.

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    noun

    :Ā one that conforms to rules or the law

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      Iā€™m not getting into semantics, Iā€™m talking about the original post I replied to, namely

      he has a clear duty to protect their secrecy

      Which is talking about a duty in derived sense, not a codified duty.

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        He does, nothing youā€™ve offered implies or states otherwise.

        No, it has to do with a law or rather a series of them an oath to office and an oath to maintain national secrets.

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          Thatā€™s the definition of a derived duty, and it isnā€™t what Iā€™d call ā€œlaw.ā€