Comment by rootusrootus

That's spinning it pretty nicely. The problem with what he did is that 1) having the power to declassify something doesn't just make it declassified, there is actually a process, 2) he did not declassify with that process when he had the power to do so, just declared later that keeping the docs was allowed as a result, and 3) he was asked a couple times for the classified documents and refused. If he had just let the national archives come take a peek, or the FBI after that, it would have been a non-issue. Just like every POTUS before him.