Trump: A president can declassify documents just by ‘thinking about it’

Published September 22, 2022 6:36am ET



Former President Donald Trump insisted during an interview on Wednesday that “there doesn’t have to be a process” for a president to declassify documents and claimed that a commander in chief can declassify material “even by thinking about it.”

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