re: BREAKING: Trump describes process of how he declassified documents found at Mar-a-Lago

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They don’t care if they find anything.

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That's why we will probably never see the affidavit.

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Not so, their are clasified documents that can't be declassified due to national security risks.

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Says who?

If you take this defense as true and fully legal (setting aside that none of the statutes in the search warrant depend on classification), you're still cool with it? Under this approach, if he took national security information home, then it's declassified and anyone can obtain it through FOIA request. Lets say, he took home information on planned troop movement, foreign sources for intel, etc. That all became fair game for anyone to obtain as soon as it left with him because it no longer has its classification?

I get wanting the FBI to look bad or Trump not to go to jail, but how is that even remotely wise or good?

It's not irrelevant. It's the entire statement. Why would you have a standing order to declassify information that went home with you if you did not take classified information?

THAT'S irrelevant. They never said they declassified any information they took with them. Once it's declassified there's no justification for keeping it from the public.

It’s irrelevant because the only things that are relevant are:

Was it legal

Was a raid of MAL necessary

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THAT'S irrelevant. They never said they declassified any information they took with them. Once it's declassified there's no justification for keeping it from the public.

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And the President gets to decide what the public gets to see.

So…what is your point?

I asked if it was wise or a good idea to do that. Not if it was legal to declassify any document that goes out the door. To the contrary, I said lets assume it's a perfectly legal explanation. The implications are still astounding.

As to whether a "raid" was necessary, no one will know until the affidavit underlying the search warrant is unsealed. There are plenty of fact patterns that would make it necessary and plenty that would make it unnecessary.

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So…what is your point?

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My point is clearly that there are plenty of secrets the President presumably shouldn't make public (e.g., our own foreign agent identities, nuclear weapons programs, etc.) A blanket declassification of anything that gets taken home seems incredibly dangerous even if it is legal.

The President gets to decide what “should” be made public. Not you or your ilk.

So again, your points are entirely irrelevant

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seems incredibly dangerous even if it is legal.

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An the ole “seems” aka perception which is what this is about anyway.