If the documents that were confiscated by the FBI were stamped,
in big red bold letters, at the top and bottom of each page, with the words "SECRET", "TOP SECRET" "CLASSIFIED", or something to that effect, and there were no further markings indicating that the documents had been subsequently officially declassified, with some kind of de-classification code written next to the previously stamped classifications, then the documents were NOT declassified by Trump, even if he says that they were declassified.
It's not a matter of him being some kind of wizard, snapping his fingers, and suddenly *POOF*, the documents are hereby declassified.
There is a declassification process, and the result of that process is that the markings on the documents must be officially redacted via the use of a declassification control number.
If my memory of the events yesterday serves me correctly, I believe that the FBI generated inventory sheets indicating the classifications of the items seized. This means that the documents were still officially classified at some sensitive level (ie: Secret, Top Secret, or whatever other classifications are being used these days).
Therefore, any notion that the documents were somehow declassified by Trump is complete bullshit unless the markings on the documents were officially redacted.
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