The comments come after Trump said presidents can 'declassify just by saying it's declassified' amid an investigation into whether he mishandled documents.
seizing thousands of files including some that were marked classified, as part of an investigation into whether Trump potentially mishandled the materials when he left the White House last year. The former president has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in regard to the documents.
In his interview on Fox News, Trump said:"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." Above, Marc Short takes a phone call on September 19, 2019, in New York City. Short blasted former President Donald Trump's claim that presidents can declassify something by thinking about it, calling the statement"absurd.""And it doesn't have to be a process. There can be a process, but there doesn't have to be. You're the president. You make that decision. So when you send it, it's declassified. Because I declassified everything," the ex-president added.
"That's absurd, obviously, and I think it would make it very difficult for the intelligence community to have a classification system if that was the case," Short responded.
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