Presidents can declassify documents 'even by thinking about it,' former President Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity that aired Wednesday night.
Presidents can declassify documents"even by thinking about it," former President Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity that aired Wednesday night.
The ex-president has insisted the scores of documents with classification markers the FBI discovered at Mar-a-Lago were actually declassified. But Trump's attorneys have resisted a request for information from special master Raymond Dearie, the independent arbiter tasked with inspecting the seized documents, about whether those records were in fact declassified by the former president.
But Dearie said that if Trump's lawyers won't affirm the records have been declassified, and the Justice Department makes a legitimate case that they remain classified, then"as far as I'm concerned, that's the end of it.
"There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it," Trump told Hannity."You know, there's different people say different things, but as I understand, there doesn't have to be — if you're the President of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it. Because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're sending it. And there doesn't have to be a process.
Presidents do have sweeping authority to declassify records, but there is a process that is normally followed.
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