Kilroy2
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POTUS doesn't have to notify anyone. Period.
Øbama had classified documents stored in an unsecured warehouse and the Obama Foundation paid the Archive in 2018 to remove and transfer those documents to safer storage. The letter indicating that is at Øbama's website which is linked in the below tweet.
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Sec. 1.8. Classification Challenges. (a) Authorized holders of information who, in good faith, believe that its classification status is improper are encouraged and expected to challenge the classification status of the information in accordance with agency procedures established under paragraph (b) of this section.
So Trump would have to notify the agency who established the classification that he wants to change it. IF they disagree they can challenge it. Yes Trump would have the final say if Trump wants to declassify. Still top secret stuff that would be declassified would have to go thru the originating agency. Thus notified in writing even by; Trump and there would be a record of this. I am sure he believes he can just say it or think it but he has the go thru channels. Yeah he would have the final say but then again he did not go thru channels.
Still there is a process of notification and that quite different from a mental thought that I want to declassify.
nice story about obama, but do you have a source other than twitter. Unfortunately National Archives and Records disagree. NARA says that they are in control of all classified and unclassified records of Obama presidency