Definition of "declassify" verb third-person singular simple present declassifies , present participle declassifying , simple past and past participle declassified
to remove the classification from ; to lift the restrictions on quotations examples
Quotations Trump : This was done by the military and given to me . Uh , I think we can probably , right ? / Staffer : I don 't know , well , we 'll have to see . Yeah , we 'll have to try to - / Trump : Declassify it. / Staffer : -figure out a - yeah . / Trump : See as president I could have declassified it. Now I can 't , you know , but this is still a secret . / Staffer : Yeah . [Laughter ] Now we have a problem . / Trump : Isn 't that interesting ? / Staffer : Yeah . / Trump : It's so cool .
2023 June 27 , Donald Trump, 02:18 from the start, in ‘This is secret information’: Hear exclusive audio of Trump discussing classified documents, CNN, archived from the original on 2023-06-27