When Cheeto talks about "declassification" he seems to be channeling his inner Nixon

Pointed at this by Taegan Goddard's Political Wire.

From Newsweek, dated 8/12/2022 (emphasis added by me)  -

Trump Declassification Rationale 'Idiotic,' 'Chaos Inducing': Ex-FBI Agent

Former FBI special agent and attorney Asha Rangappa rejected former President 

Donald Trump's contention that the documents sought by the FBI at his Florida 

home were "declassified," describing the defense as "idiotic" and "dumb" on Friday.

Days after the FBI on Monday carried out its search warrant at Trump's 

Mar-a-Lago resort residence looking for top secret and other classified materials, 

the office of the former president told Just the News in a statement that Trump had 

a "standing order" to declassify sensitive information so he could transport 

it to his Florida home.

"He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office 

and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified," the statement said. 

"The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the 

President of the United States. The idea that some paper-pushing bureaucrat, 

with classification authority delegated BY THE PRESIDENT, needs to approve 

of declassification is absurd."

From GoodReads -

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal"

[snip]

― Richard Nixon