Contrary to what the former US president said, Donald Trump did not have the legal power to declassify a US nuclear weapons-related document while he was president. He is accused of unlawfully having the material.

The Atomic Energy Act states that only via a procedure involving the Departments of Energy and Defence can the secret document, which is named as No. 19 in the indictment accusing Trump of compromising national security, be declassified.

The declassification of the other documents in the indictment is controlled by presidential order, which makes the nuclear document distinct from the other 31 documents, according to the experts.

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