The President has access to all kinds of classified data, and just because he accesses them or takes them to another location does not mean they are declassified. If that were true, then if someone robbed Mar-a-Lago while Trump was president and took classified documents, then they could be charged with theft, but not with theft of classified information, because by your standard, the documents would have been declassified when he took them to his home.
But once again, whether or not the documents were classified or not is not a critical component of the charges filed against Trump. Classification is not mentioned in the charges. In the first 31 charges, it just mentions national defense information. I don’t think Trump arguing the documents were automatically declassified is going to win the case for him. He’s better off arguing that the PRA is the controlling statute in this case, not the Espionage Act.
it reminds me of
the pee dossier
DreyfusI
DreyfusII
DreyfusIII
DreyfusIV
DreyfusV
ad infinitum
the original Dreyfus
triggered off
zionism - birth of Israel
now I see
the new Jerusalem
coming soon