During an interview this week with Fox News host Sean Hannity, disgraced, failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump asserted that he declassified all of the highly sensitive documents he illegally took from the White House.
Did Donald go through the arduous process for declassifying those documents? No. According to him, he declassified them with his mind, telling Hannity:
“There doesn’t have to be a process as I understand it. If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified,’ even by thinking about it because you’re sending it to Mar-a-Lago or wherever you’re sending it. And there doesn’t have to be a process. There can be a process but there doesn’t have to be. You’re the president. You make that decision. So when you send it, it’s declassified. I declassified everything.”
Problem is, that’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.
The Hannity-Trump interview led the ex-president’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, to suggest that the Donald’s mental acuity has degraded considerably since he left the White House.
Appearing on CNN, Cohen told host Sara Sidner:
“There’s something very different about Donald Trump today than the Donald Trump I remember at the Trump Organization.
“I think cognitively there’s something seriously going on. He’s so worried about what’s going on, not just in this case but in all of the cases, that I really do believe that cognitively there’s something going on there because nobody, even Donald — he’s not stupid enough to believe that you can mentally declassify documents.”
Cohen added:
“He knew what documents were there. I mean, there’s nuclear documents and we don’t even know which ones that they are, we don’t know what country they relate to. And I believe he took those documents and all of them in order to use against the United States in the event that he is indicted or potentially incarcerated. “It’s a ‘get out of jail free’ card.”
And Cohen also noted that the ex-president will toss anyone and everyone to the wolves to save his own hide:
“There’s nothing that he won’t do to protect himself because he doesn’t care about anyone else other than himself. In fact, he’ll let his kids go down before him. He’ll let them fall on the sword the same way he let me fall on the sword. That’s who he is.”
