Weeks before Mar-a-Lago search, ex-Trump DOD official vowed to publish classified documents from National Archives.
Kash Patel participates in panel at CPAC Texas 2022 conference in Dallas, Aug. 5, 2022.In June of this year, seven weeks before the FBI raided former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in search of, former Defense Department appointee and outspoken Trump loyalist Kash Patel vowed to retrieve classified documents from the National Archives and publish them on his website.
Patel did not provide a clear explanation of how he would legally or practically obtain the documents. So according to Patel, Trump asked him to work on retrieving the classified documents from the National Archives and then release them to the public. "President Trump was like, 'Who knows those documents better than anyone?' And I was like, 'If you want me to go, I'll go,'" Patel said.
And while Patel has said the former president said to declassify "a mountain of documents," experts say there areto ensure that national security is not harmed when information is declassified -- even by the president.
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