His exact quote, according to CNN, was 'As president, I could have declassified, but now I can't,'
Notice he didn't say that he didn't declassify, merely that sitting presidents can declass whatever they want to, and he can't do that NOW.
CNN, of course, launches a whole attack campaign based on the idea that his quote means he didn't declassify while he was president. But really: Preseent Trump has already said he DID, and is now making a simple and accurate statement. Is he trolling poor CNN again?
It's funny that he made that statement in such a deliberately vague way though. It's the Trump quicksand, and CNN stepped into it AGAIN
With President Trump, the newsies need two (2) critical skills that they are in short supply of:
When PDJT says something, EVEN vaguely, he knows that those two things are going to used by them and it makes them RETARDS......