I’m not actually buying the idea that any former president can just make a blanket statement like that which will cover classified documents after he has left office. Taking paperwork from one part of the White House to another part of the White House is one thing, it never leaves the building. Taking it out of the building after POTUS has left office seems out of bounds because he no longer has the nations secrets as part of his job. He doesn’t even have security clearance as the 2024 GOP nominee because that hasn’t happened yet.
Even Sandy Berger was only guilty of a misdemeanor and got probation for stuffing classified documents in his socks and stealing them from the national archives. He was never a President with inherent unilateral authority over classification.
BS. I have worked with Classified material for many years and the President has the ultimate authority for de-classifying Classified material. This is nothing but a fishing expedition to grab all of Trump’s Presidential documents in order to find a process crime. This is an authoritarian state going after its enemy by any means necessary.
A former president or agency director cannot unlearn classified materiel. And the president can direct documents declassified and frequently he has things in on the front pages of say the NYT classified going forward.
You must be another child living in Canada, making these sweepingly broad statements which are entirely ignorant.
For starters, presidents maintain their security clearances after they leave office.