It's not about top secret clearance, it's about what you are allowed to do if you have that clearance.
Arbitrarily declassifying documents retroactively is not something POTUS is allowed to do.
Here are the FAQs, and you'll find nothing in it has anything to do with Trump magically declaring something declassified after the fact: https://www.justice.gov/archives/open/declassification/declassification-faq
No it's about the authority of the POTUS to declassify documents at will you fucking retard.
Department of Navy vs. Egan
The President, after all, is the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." U.S. Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant. See Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U.S. 886, 890, 81 S.Ct. 1743, 1746, 6 L.Ed.2d 1230 (1961).
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/484/518
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