former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that raid. he also fundraised off of it and really, he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was for a deep state which hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement said exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order the documentary from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be cool declassify the open moment he met them. they idea that a paper pushing delegate delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification, is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all of these documents. whatever a standing declassification order is. cool. except nobody bought it. cnn interviewed 18 former officials from trump s own administration who called this explanation ludicrous and ri
joining us this evening. remember back in august last year, when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president has knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and publicly about that. he also fund-raise off it and took every opportunity to put out what a victim he was of a deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, first real justification for why he kept all of the documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order that documents remained from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all these documents, whatever a sta
come on and run. i mean, you know, real talk about like the sociologist teaching intro to sociology of race at 40 universities. stand back new college. all right, thank you as always, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. remember back in august of last year when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that, right? he also fund raised off of it, and really he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was of the deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news. quote, president trump had a standing order that documents removed from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified t
of the official process for how to declassify things, which totally makes sense because trump really like sharing classified information when he was in office. remember the time that president trump casually revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister during a white house meeting? or the time he tweeted out a highly classified image from a u.s. by satellite? or the time that he had sensitive discussions about north korea with the japanese prime minister in front of a crowd of onlookers at mar-a-lago, remember all that? in retrospect, it should not be all that surprising that trump was being repeatedly pulled official declassification process is supposed to work. and now, those warnings, they 16 records could become a key part of special counsel jack smith s case against former president trump. according to cnn, the 16 presidential records may provide critical evidence establishing the former president s awareness and to declassification process, a key part of
declassify all these documents, whatever a standing declassification order is? cool. except nobody bought it. cnn interviewed 18 former officials from trump s own administration who called this explanation ludicrous and ridiculous and a complete fiction. john kelly, who as you recall, was trump s chief of staff, he says, nothing approaching an order that foolish was ever given, and i can t imagine anyone that worked at the white house after meet that would have simply shrugged their shoulders and allowed that order to go forward. okay. if you weeks later, trump sat down with an interview with sean hannity and tried in new defense. you have set on to social and number of times, he s the declassify i did declassify, yes. is there a process, what was your process to declassify? it doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. different people say different