Kash Patel: Trump Can Declassify Boxes Of Documents With A Single Utterance
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August 14, 2022

Kash Patel, a former official in the Trump administration, argued on Sunday that the former president could declassify piles of documents with a single utterance.

In an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Patel defended Trump after FBI agents reportedly used a search warrant to seize classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

"On the way out of the White House he issued further declassification orders declassifying whole sets of documents," Patel said. "And this is a key fact that most Americans are missing. President Trump, as a sitting president, has the unilateral authority for declassification."

Patel added: "He can literally stand over a set of documents and say these are now declassified and that is done with definitive action immediately."

According to The Washington Post, there is a declassification process for a president to follow when declassifying documents. And there is no evidence that the documents found at Mar-a-Lago had been declassified.

Watch the video below.

Update: Here's more from The New York Times on the lie Patel was pushing here.

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