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Presidents, according to Trump, can declassify "by thinking"

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In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that aired on Wednesday night, the former president Trump made this statement.

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The former president Bush asserts that the numerous sensitive documents that the FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago had already been declassified.

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Trump's attorneys have declined to respond to the special master.

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In a letter to Dearie on Monday, the Trump legal team asserted that this disclosure went beyond District Judge Aileen Cannon's directive and might be related to the Trump.

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But if Trump's lawyers decline to vouch for the declassification of the documents, Dearie believes "that's the end of it."

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Before the appeals court decision, Trump said in an interview with "Hannity" that he had "declassified everything" and that presidents could do the same by "thinking about it."

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Although there are differing views on this, from what I've heard, anything that the President of the United States declares to be declassified will automatically become so.