Marc Short, top aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, called former President Trump's assertion that presidents can declassify documents just by thinking about it 'absurd.'
Marc Short, top aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, called former President Trump's assertion that presidents can declassify documents just by thinking about it"absurd."
"That's absurd, obviously," Short responded."And I think it would make it very difficult for the intelligence community to have a classification system if that was the case."Federal investigators are reviewing the scores of documents with classification markings seized at Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago home last month.
Presidents do have sweeping authority to declassify records, but there is a process that is normally followed. Generally, a president'sare first written down in a memo, typically drafted by White House lawyers, which the president would then sign. Relevant agencies are usually then consulted and when a final decision is made, the document would be marked, with its old classification level crossed out, and stamped,"Declassified on X date" by the agency in question.
"The last six weeks seems to be traveling all over the country these last 45 days, and I think that he has been for the last few weeks," Short said, adding that"he's going to be doing a lot of House races, in governors races. And I think that that's where his focus is going to be."
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