John Kelly: Trump 'didn't believe in the classification system'
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly explained to The Washington Post that his former boss did not understand why America's secrets are classified.
Kelly's comments were included in a Washington Post deep-dive by reporters Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Jacqueline Alemany and Devlin Barrett titled, "Trump’s secrets: How a records dispute led the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago."
"A Trump adviser said the former president’s reluctance to relinquish the records stems from his belief that many items created during his term — photos, notes, even a model of Air Force One built to show off a new paint job he had commissioned — are now his personal property, despite a law dating to the 1970s that decreed otherwise," the newspaper reported.
The newspaper interviewed Kelly, who also served as Secretary of Homeland Security and as a four-star Marine Corps general.
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Look where he is now 
the government was his. So of course he thinks of these documents as his. It has nothing to do with ignorance of the law--he just thinks he's above all that nonsense. He's like a bored kid playing with his toys and under an oversimplified fantasy conception of how the world and politics work. Six-year-olds, for instance, might often just sort of assume that the president can do anything he wants because it's the ultimate power in their conception of the world.
That's how Trump has always conceived of wealth and of celebrity ("when you're a star ..."
, and the presidency was just another step in that line for him. He's never really had access to power that was structured by something resembling a legitimate authority. It was just the raw power that comes from money (rather than money coupled with important experience and expertise that one might work to acquire alongside their wealth) or from celebrity (rather than the sort of artistry or insight that some develop alongside, and which helps to account for, their fame). He's never had to care about that, so he doesn't see it as relevant.
