Donald Trump said there 'doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it' for a president to declassify documents. The nation's top office holder 'can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it,' he said.
For the first time ever, a special master has been granted to review documents in the criminal investigation of a former president. Here's why.Former President Donald Trump said in a broadcast interview Wednesday that he can declassify documents “even by thinking about it.”
“There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity, after Hannity pressed him on which process he took to declassify the documents. He continued, “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it.” authorizing the Department of Justice to review the 100 classified documents he took. The court said that although the former president has said he declassified the documents before he left office, there are no records of it.
"In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal," the court said.
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