Former President Donald Trump addressed the FBI’s raid last month on his Florida home at Mar-a-Lago during a Fox News interview Wednesday night where he said that he had the ability to declassify documents by just “thinking about it.”
The sections of the U.S. criminal code that were cited on the search warrant indicated that the investigation centered around matters unrelated to whether the documents in question were declassified or not. The sections of the of the U.S. criminal code that were cited included potential violations of the Espionage Act, the unlawful taking of government records, and obstruction of justice related to destroying documents.
“I did declassify,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity during an interview at Mar-a-Lago.
“Is there a process — what was your process to declassify?” Hannity asked.
“There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it. You know, there’s — different people say different things, but as I understand there doesn’t have to be,” Trump said. “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.”
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