Legal experts say presidents have absolute authority to declassify documents, but it's not clear whether Trump ever took action to do so.
Legal experts say presidents have absolute authority to declassify documents, but it's not clear whether Trump ever took action to do soFormer President Donald Trump and his allies say that any sensitive White House documents he brought with him to his Mar-a-Lago estate had been declassified, but some legal and presidential record experts are skeptical of that claim — and say that Trump could be in criminal jeopardy regardless.
"As the facts stand now, his defense would be, ‘I declassified those documents. I am not therefore in possession of classified documents now,'” said Charles Stimson, a senior fellow with the conservative Heritage Foundation and a former federal prosecutor.
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