“The Supreme Court determined in its 1988 decision on Department of the Navy v. Egan that the president’s power over classified information comes from executive authority granted by Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which says, in part, that the “President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.”
“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,” the Supreme Court decision reads.”
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Doesn't matter, Apologist. The fact remains that classified or unclassified -- the documents that #TRE45ON held at Mar-A-Lago were not his to legally possess. If they were, why did he turn over 15 boxes of them this past January -- a year after we rid our White House of his corrupt stench?
