meaner gene
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Only if he does so "on the record", often by EO or other documented means. Which would then be executed by the white house personnel charged with handling white house classification / declassification. And mark the documents declassified, and when they were declassified, and under whose authority they were declassified.Donald Trump was the ultimate classification authority in the United States. He can declassify anything he wants at will without documentation or notification. It's literally impossible for him to illegally possess classified documents that he obtained while being President.
No more than a president can pardon somebody merely by tweeting it.