‘Process?’ No Problem, Just let Donald Trump ‘Think’ About It
Is there no end to the mighty powers of our former President Donald Trump?
We were suitably impressed or, at least, astonished when he famously told us in his 2016 campaign, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
We were similarly surprised when he claimed to have drawn “1.5 million people to his swearing-in ceremony despite aerial photos that showed Barack Obama’s crowd to be at least twice as large.
“Throughout my life,” he immodestly tweeted in 2018, “my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.”
Right. Yet, those alleged assets pale in comparison to the superpower he revealed in what was expected to be a typical softball interview Wednesday with the Republican ex-president and his conservative pal and Fox News host Sean Hannity.
On the delicate subject of the more than 300 classified documents that the former president took with him to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, now the subject of an extensive Justice Department investigation, Trump said, no problem, he had declassified the documents.
Oh? Pressing gently as to what sort of declassification process had occurred, Trump shrugged.
“There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” he said. “You’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it.”
Even by thinking about it?
“In other words,” Trump said, “when I left the White House, they were declassified.”
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