Pence: I Never Heard That Trump Declassified Docs

Axios reports:

“Well first off, the handling of classified materials is enormously serious in the life of the nation, but in my case, I was never made aware of any broad-based effort to declassify documents,” Mike Pence told ABC News’ Jon Karl during an interview on “This Week”.

“There is a process that the White House goes through to declassify materials. I’m aware of that occurring on several occasions over the course of our four years, but I don’t have any knowledge of any broad-based directive from the president,” Pence said.

“That doesn’t mean it didn’t occur. It’s just not something that I never heard about,” he added. When asked whether Meadows, as Trump’s chief of staff, would’ve known about declassification efforts, Pence said, “I would expect so,” but did not go into further detail.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday he was not made aware of any efforts by former President Donald Trump to declassify documents.

Pence’s statement is at odds with Trump’s insistence he did nothing wrong by keeping the materials at Mar-a-Lago. https://t.co/TIt602g7SY

— Axios (@axios) August 20, 2023

“I don’t have any knowledge of any broad-based directive from the president” to declassify documents found at Mar-a-Lago, former Vice Pres. Mike Pence tells @JonKarl.

“But that doesn’t mean it didn’t occur, it’s not something I ever heard about.” https://t.co/WbYUUpLAg4 pic.twitter.com/zhhLwIyLJX

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 20, 2023