Rep. Adam Schiff: ‘No Evidence’ that Trump Declassified Documents
Schiff notes that the Justice Department's search warrant never required the documents to be classified to justify retrieval.
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) says he’s seen no evidence of Trump’s alleged declassifying of documents on the topic of the FBI raid at the former president's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, tweeting out that he requested a national security damage assessment on the files. “A former president has no declassification authority," Schiff, head of the House Intelligence Committee, said on CBS’ Face the Nation. “And the idea that 18 months after the fact Donald Trump could simply announce...‘Whatever I took home had the effect of declassifying them’ is absurd.” Schiff added that the statute in the search warrant didn't require that the documents be classified, but simply that they be damaging to national security, in order to call for retrieval.
On fmr. Pres. Trump's claim that he declassified the documents found in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, Rep. Adam Schiff said he hasn't seen evidence that Trump went through the declassification process.
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 14, 2022
"I've seen no evidence of that, nor have they presented any evidence of that" pic.twitter.com/POHu4hgQaV
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