No he cannot. You obviously never dealt with classified material before.
ABSOLUTELY wrong. As the top power in the Exec branch and as Commander in Chief -- the Supreme Court has ruled on this twice. And TWICE the answer is -- "A president certainly can order the declassification of specified documents". The key word is ORDER. Cannot do it ex post facto.
Bush did it in 2004 when he simply made a VERY top secret Daily Briefing paper on "Bin Laden intent to hit America" public WITHOUT any agency advice.
And Trump DID just that with ALL the FBI's OWN files on RussiaGate and the Clinton involvement in early Oct 2020. WE ALL KNEW THIS HAPPENED -- where were YOU??? Since Trump is SUING the DNC and Clinton on the fake as shit "Steele dossier" -- and pursuing claims against the FBI -- the SAFEST PLACE FOR ALL THAT DOCUMENTATION WOULD BE -- with him and his lawyers.
This is all it takes. To be MADE PUBLIC -- that declassified info MIGHT have to go to the issuing agencies for redactions of "humint" deconfliction or "methods" deconfliction. But it can then be given to the media and the public.
President Trump on Tuesday said he has “full authorized the total declassification” of “any & all” documents related to the Russia investigation and the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
www.foxnews.com
President Trump on Tuesday said he has “fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all
documents" related to the Russia investigation and the FBI’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton’s use of a private email server.
“I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!” The president tweeted Tuesday night.
"All Russia Hoax Scandal information was Declassified by me long ago," Trump tweeted. "Unfortunately for our Country, people have acted very slowly, especially since it is perhaps the biggest political crime in the history of our Country."
The president’s tweets come after Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s purported “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server” ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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The FBI is NOT looking for "nuclear" info. They are looking for UNREDACTED classified papers that point to FBI CRIMINALITY in the matters of RussiaGate and FBI spying on the 2016 campaign. Which is WHY the DOJ and AG signed off on this "save our ass" raid.