“That’s right,” Trump said. “And not only that, I think there were other people there. But I have an absolute right to declassify, an absolute — a president has that absolute right, and a lot of people don’t question that anymore.” Trump added later in the interview that “everything was declassified.” In a court filing earlier this week, the Justice Department addressed the absence of any such claim from Trump’s legal team in court, while also arguing in court that even if it declassified the material, it would still be irrelevant to the trial. controversy over research. Trump’s lawyers have tried to dispute that the more than 100 classified documents seized by the FBI last month are actually classified. However, his lawyers did not make it clear that Trump declassified the materials. Trump, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday, “primarily seeks to raise questions about the classified status of the records and their categorization under the Presidential Records Act (PRA). — that any of the seized records marked with a rating has been declassified.” None of the criminal statutes cited by the Justice Department in applying for the warrant it used to search Trump’s home depended on the classification of the documents in question. Eighteen former Trump administration officials also told CNN last month that they knew no such declassification order existed and that they believed Trump’s claims were patently false. During Thursday’s radio interview, Trump said he did not believe he would be indicted. When asked if he had received a target letter in connection with the Justice Department’s investigation into voter fraud, Trump said he had not, nor had he been asked to appear before the grand jury. “I didn’t deal with alternative slates,” Trump said. That claim has been contradicted by testimony given at the House inquiry on January 6, where RNC Chairwoman Rona McDaniel testified that Trump called her as part of the effort to use fake voters to support him.
