He was breaking the Law in 2019.
No innocent explanation
Also, when Trump first announced that he would declassify the Crossfire Hurricane stuff, he did it during a press cackle near his helicopter. It’s on video.
He said he declassified everything and sent it to the Attorney General for final disposition (paraphrasing).
Who was the Attorney General at that time? You guessed it - William Barr.
Barr was the first one to slow-walk the declassification and it never got done relative to DOJ procedures. The slow-walking continued into the Biden admin.
But there is no question that Trump lawfully declassified all of this. The DOJ is just trying everything possible to keep this stuff from public view. We’ll see if Trump can out fox them - I sure hope he can!