Rigby5
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- Apr 23, 2017
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The president can declassify all the documents he took with him when he left office. But that would mean all copies of the 184 classified documents would be declassified. If he did that he should be charged with treason or committed to an asylum.
Not at all.
The point is that once Trump has read documents given to him, they are automatically declassified to him.
He does not have to declassify them everyone or anyone else.
Once he was given legal possession, then he can then copy and keep them as he deems fit.
Having the documents is not at all even remotely possible to being a crime.
What is potentially illegal is depriving everyone else of access to the documents, under the archives and freedom of information acts.
But it is not clear he was intending to always keep them, if there were already copies, if he was still sorting and copying them, etc.?