Presidents can declassify documents even if they think about them.
The analyst said he may have intended to send the boxes of materials.
It's possible that Trump's claim is different than the one that documents ended up in his home.
The classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago may have ended up in the wrong place.
In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump made a false claim that Presidents can declassify documents by saying "It's declassified" or "even by thinking about it."
"Because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or somewhere else," Trump said. The president makes that decision. It's de classified when you send it. Trump said that he de classified everything.
"You're sending it to Mar-a-Lago" was the focus of a Friday episode of CNN NewDay.
The statement implied that he intended to send the boxes of materials to his private club and home. People around him have said that things were just shipped out.
According to two sources familiar with the Mar-a-Lago raid and the DOJ's investigation into the documents, Trump's aides were hastily packing up documents near the end of his presidency.
He seemed to suggest that this was intentional, after they tried to think that this was an accident.
The allegation that the FBI planted information in Mar-a-Lago was undermined by Trump.
"There seems to be confusion as to the'picture' where documents were sloppily thrown on the floor and then released photographically for the world to see, as if that's what the FBI found when they broke into my home," Trump wrote.
He said that they spread them around on the carpet in a way that looked like a big find for them. They dropped them, not me, and we didn't have a lawyer present during the raid. They were told to stay inside.
A political analyst for CNN and a White House Correspondent for the New York Times, Haberman has been following Trump for a long time. Her upcoming book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Break of America," discusses how Trump handled his defeat in the 2020 election, including his attempt to seek advice from White House aides.
The civil suit New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed against Trump was one of the topics discussed.
Business Insider has an article on it.
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