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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Isn’t this a false equivalency? As much as I hate to admit it, the argument that Trump during his tenure as CIC had broad powers to declassify… and I haven’t seen anything that suggests the documents he had in his possession weren’t declassified; he claims he declassified them though, so what is the counter-argument?
gpt
Thats not how it works. There has to be an official record of the declassification decision. It is 100% true that the president has classification and declassification authority. There has to be an official request to declassify a document, and that declassification decision has to be recorded. 

Trump could have had one of his aides request declassification and then he could approve it. This makes it official, so people actually know that document is declassified. Trump suggested he just spoke it into existence which is like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy by shouting it loudly.