Donald Trump’s “standing order” just went up in smoke

| 7:00 pm EDT June 30, 2023
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Donald Trump doesn’t really stand a chance in his classified documents criminal trial, but he’s going to try to find a way to carve out some slim odds of selling a reasonable doubt defense. Based on his rhetoric up to this point, he’s likely going to try to claim at trial that he’d given a “standing order” to declassify documents he dealt with.

But it turns out the DOJ and the ONDI have already conducted investigations in search of any evidence that Trump ever gave any such “standing order” while he was in office. According to Bloomberg, it turns out there’s no evidence that it ever happened.

This is good news because it means that yet another narrow door for claiming reasonable doubt has now been closed off to Donald Trump. He and his lawyers can claim all they want that Trump magically declassified everything while he was still in office. But since he won’t be able to produce a lick of evidence to support this claim, he’ll have an impossible time selling it to the jury.

Dear Palmer Report readers, we all understand the difficult era we're heading into. Major media outlets are caving to Trump already. Even the internet itself and publishing platforms may be at risk. But Palmer Report is nonetheless going to lead the fight. We're funding our 2025 operating expenses now, so we can keep publishing no matter what happens. I'm asking you to contribute if you can, because the stakes are just so high. You can donate here.