According to Patel, Trump could easily declassify information -just saying a document was declassified was enough. He also responded to claims that Trump took documents he shouldn’t have. Patel said that the G.S.A. (General Services Administration) already admitted to making a mistake regarding which boxes of documents were brought to Mar-A-Lago and that Trump could not be held responsible,
“If he says something is declassified, that’s it, it is declassified. He declassified a whole set of documents that should have come out… That’s on the National Archives to sort that material out… Even if it was classified, they’ll never meet the burden of intent because the president didn’t pack it up and take it out himself, the G.S.A. has said they did it and they made a mistake.”