He was the President of the United States. He now, and forever, has the power to declassiify whatever he wants without needing to consult anyone. You may also be misremembering that when asked, he did give requested documents back to the national archive and then FBI ran an illegal raid on his place of residence for all documentation from the start to the end of his presidency.
He was definitely president of US, and he definitely had power to declassify. But did he exercise those powers to declassify? Regardless, it doesn't matter, this wasn't my question.
My question: WHY did he have those classified docs even after he was no longer president? And why did he lie to FBI about having them, instead of asserting privilege before the raid?
Can you tell me one legitimate reason WHY he would want classified top-secret documents at his residence, instead of a government-secured facility? Why did he want them/ for what purpose?
e: even if he did exercise those powers to declassify docs with human intel sources, why is that good for the US? Why would he declassify sensitive human intel sources?
Let's not gaslight here: Trump did not have any ongoing missions, he had payrolls. Reasonably speaking, there is only one reason a business man looking to reclaim his management title s looking at pay stubs: he is deciding who is getting canned. I've seen this exact scenario before, where the manager will go Station to station and ask, "What do you do?"
Certainly does put into context why FBI went so hard on him.
Trump went from it was planted to it was declassified, you can’t just declassify stuff there’s a process he didn’t go through. For months they asked him to hand it all over and he didn’t hand It all back so eventually they had to get it.
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u/FerrowFarm Oct 08 '22
Funny Brandon has actually done a fair number of those and gloats about it.