You can't understand my first sentence? I guess gramatically that's possible. So I'll try and clarify...
None of the top secret documents Trump took were created by him. They were formulated in another setting, likely Intelligence or State, classified, and then brought to Trump's attention. He can at his discretion decide they no longer need to be classified, but that would usually occur after seeking counsel from members of Intelligence or his own Cabinet.
The protocols are already established, so if he decides to change that, he needs to make anyone who is in the loop aware that the status has changed. At a bare minimum whichever department classified the documents in the first place needs to be made aware that they are no longer classified as "top secret".
Top secret classification makes access to a document expensive and time consuming. Operating a facility like a SKIF requires guards, who are tasked with securing access to the documents. If a POTUS were to decide to declassify a document and remove it's "top secret" designation and not tell ANYONE, that means a bunch of (unnecessar) man hours and govt expense would continue to be utilized in an unnecessary manner.
I realize you like Donald Trump, or at least his policies but he knows nothing about geopolitical or intelligence issues. There are already previous examples where he's revealed classified info. In a 2017 meeting with the Russian Ambassador and Foreign Minister at the WH, he bragged about the "great intelligence" he recieved. He then proceeded to reveal to the Russians info on Islamic State capabilities to hack into on board laptops and threaten aircraft.
That was info that had been provided by a partner with a source close to the Islamic State. The info was not intended to be shared with Russia and hadn't even been made available to NATO allies. And it was so sensitive that within our Govt it was only known by a select few on a need to know basis.
It wasn't just that Trump shared info with the Russians info they weren't intended to have. Apparently Trump assumed that letting the Russians know we had the info would boost his ego and show off our ability to obtain info. He likely assumed they were fighting ISIS, so he was helping out an "ally".
As a result a secret CIA operation is threatened when the Russians share the info directly with an ally, or more insidiously the info falls into the wrong hands and suddenly ISIS is able to plug a leak that they didn't even know existed. Agents are compromised, lives are endangered and an operation that was in place for years was basically destroyed by carelessness and ego.Trump is careless and stubborn, and that's why the MAL case happened in the first place...
