Former Trump national security staffer Kash Patel called in with Martha Maccallum on FOX News on Friday to react to the release of the warrant used by the FBI to search President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort home.
"If he says something is declassified, that's it, it is declassified," Patel explained. "He declassified a whole set of documents that should have come out... That's on the National Archives to sort that material out... Even if it was classified, they'll never meet the burden of intent because the president didn't pack it up and take it out himself, the G.S.A. has said they did it and they made a mistake."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...assified_unilaterally_by_president_trump.html
All any President needs to do is say, these documents are declassified. End of story... period. The President doesn’t need to write it down, he doesn’t even need to tell anyone. If the President says it’s declassified... move on, no story here. There are no clear procedures for the President to Declassify anything.
There are stories that Kash Patel may have been at Mar-a-Lago viewing these classified documents. If the documents were marked classified and Patel saw them, he may find himself the subject of an investigation. It seems the FBI requested surveillance tapes for Mar-a-Lago for the time when Patel was there.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/08/...he-trump-related-espionage-act-investigation/

