Trump wants it both ways on ‘declassified’ documents

Former President Trump’s legal team is trying to have it both ways — insinuating he declassified the documents stored at his Florida home without directly claiming he did so. 

Trump’s legal team in a Monday court filing failed to fully premise its argument on the excuse the president has repeatedly offered since confirming his home was search: that he had already declassified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. 

Instead, it noted he had the power to do so without “approval of bureaucratic components of the executive branch” — seemingly offering an...