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If there is a process dictated by a law passed by Congress, can Schiff cite it for us.
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Be careful with that one.

While I can’t cite the law it is certain there is one. And for absolute certainty there is a standard process for declassifying documents. Trump wasn’t required to finish that process but it seems to me that he did need to initiate it beyond just thinking about it or talking to himself in the shower.

A paper trail would be best. Witnesses would be second best. If he did neither they can give him a lot of trouble. They could do so for Hillary and Obama as well but we know they won’t. This was all so unnecessary. Trump should have seen this coming.

And for absolute certainty there is a standard process for declassifying documents.... They could do so for Hillary and Obama as well ...Trump should have seen this coming.

Not having ever had access to classified materials, I would assume that the process of declassifying involves a decision by someone superior to the one seeking declassification. Who would that be in the case of the President? Remember, Trump did not attend FJB’s inauguration, but left D.C. the day before. He was still President when he arrived at Mar A Lago.

Hillary, while top dog (or would that be bitch?) at the State Department still did not have the power to unilaterally declassify anything, especially after she left office.

As for seeing it coming, President Trump was impeached the first time for what he allegedly said in a phone call as reported by an underling, and the second time for, what exactly? Not stopping people who were let into the Capitol by security holding the doors open for them? Trump was unprecedented since at least the time of Jackson, but Jackson made sure that everyone employed by him was loyal to him, “to the victor belongs the spoils”. The opposition to Trump from within his own government and party was unprecedented and is still going on as I type this.