Bolton Suggests Trump’s Declassification Defense Is ‘Almost Certainly a Lie’
Former President Donald Trump insists that he had a “standing order” which automatically declassified documents taken to Mar-a-Lago. However, former National Security Adviser John Bolton says he never heard anything…
Former President Donald Trump insists that he had a “standing order” which automatically declassified documents taken to Mar-a-Lago.
However, former National Security Adviser John Boltonsays he never heard anything about such an order during his time in the White House.
“I was never briefed on any such order, procedure, policy when I came in,” Bolton told The New York Times.
He added, “If he were to say something like that, you would have to memorialize that, so that people would know it existed.”
Bolton insisted that the claim about a standing order is “almost certainly a lie” and added, “When somebody begins to concoct lies like this, it shows a real level of desperation.”
Bolton served as Trump’s national security adviser for 17 months until Sept. 2019. He has since become a vocal critic of the 45th president.
On Aug. 8, FBI agents raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and reportedly recovered several sets of classified documents.