Former President Trump’s claim this week that presidents can declassify documents “even by thinking about it” did not square with former vice president Mike Pence’s top aide.
Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, speaks to members of the media outside the White House on Nov. 19, 2019. Photo: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Imagesdid not square with former vice president Mike Pence’s top aide.Marc Short, Pence's former chief of staff, called Trump’s assertion "absurd” in an interview with"That's absurd, obviously," Short said in response to a question about Trump’s remarks.
Short said neither he nor the former vice president shared that view or approach to handling classified materials.Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that there “doesn’t have to be a process” for a president to deem a document declassified. "If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, 'It's declassified,'" Trump said.
"Even by thinking about it, because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're sending it. ... There can be a process, but there doesn't have to be."Classified documents are at the center of the Department of Justice's investigation into Trump and the former president's ongoing
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