Meadows Tells Judge That Trump Tweets Weren’t Declassification Orders

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Sept. 23, 2020. Joshua Roberts/Getty Images

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s Twitter posts about declassifying “any & all documents” related to the Russia probe and Hillary Clinton emails did not amount to an order to declassify or release additional documents.

In a sworn declaration to a federal court, Meadows said the president’s tweets from earlier this month were “not self-executing declassification orders and do not require the declassification or release of any particular documents.”