A recent claim from former President Trump that he could declassify documents by thinking about them was rejected by a former top aide to the vice president.
Short told CBS News that it was ridiculous. It would be hard for the intelligence community to have a classification system if that was the case.
Short said that he and the former vice president didn't operate on that standard.
According to Trump, presidents can declassify materials by thinking about them.
Trump understands that there doesn't have to be a process. You can declassify if you are the president of the US. Pondering about it.
More than 300 classified documents were found at the Mar-a-Lago home of the former president. The status of the documents is being fought over by Trump and the Justice Department.
The legal team for Trump faced opposition in court. The special master assigned to review documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago seemed upset at a meeting on Tuesday when Trump's team resisted his request to further elaborate on a filing that noted the former president could have declassified the records.
There is no evidence that any of the records were declassified. The Justice Department was granted an exemption from the review.
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