So According to Donald Trump, He’s Actually Telepathic.

Yep. He can declassify documents “just by thinking about it”.

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When I first saw the story pop up on social media, I admittedly thought there must be some exaggeration. I mean, I’m all too aware of how far Trump goes with the rhetoric and his utter lack of a filter. We’re talking about a man who suggested on national television in the middle of a global pandemic that injecting bleach might be a helpful tool in combatting covid-19.

But surely…surely he did not say he could declassify documents simply by thinking about it?

Well during an interview with FOX’s Sean Hannity, he did.

Aaron Rupar on Twitter shared the full response to Sean Hannity’s question about the declassification process he went through, where Trump said word for word:

“There doesn’t have to be a process as I understand it. You know there’s different people say different things but as I understand it there doesn’t have to be-if you’re the President of the United States you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it. Because you’re sending it to Mar-a-Lago, to wherever you’re sending it, and there doesn’t have to be a process. There can be a process but there doesn’t have to be. You’re the President, you make the…