Months after leaving office, former President Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive info about U.S. nuclear subs with an Australian billionaire, say sources.
Even a sitting president cannot just openly tell top secret info to non cleared people. It doesn’t work that way. There are strict rules on handling classified info. A president can’t just declassify stuff on his own. There are still processes that have to be followed.
Even a sitting president cannot just openly tell top secret info to non cleared people. It doesn’t work that way. There are strict rules on handling classified info. A president can’t just declassify stuff on his own. There are still processes that have to be followed.
Correction: it’s definitely not supposed to work that way, but that’s precisely how it worked in practice between 2016 and 2020.