"Lol" no, when he was president, there is still a process to follow. This will certainly be litigated, but a legal process for declassifying documentation, especially atomic secrets, exists for a reason.

I provided specific examples and laws why that is wrong.

You're changing the argument again, but go ahead, you seem to be enjoying it.

Regardless, Trump cannot declassify documents by thought alone, nor can he do so retroactively.

You are incorrect in several statements here. Trump is being investigated for these very specific cases, a special master has been appointed, in fact.

Criminal liability is not needed in order to investigate and find that Trump mishandled classified materials, but by nature of the warrants used to seize the classified documents, criminal liability has teeth.

Specifically though, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1924 lays out felony charges for someone who "knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location". Seems relevant.

Classified materials regarding atomic secrets do have a separate classification law that includes criminal penalties, and there are reports that some of the mishandled Mar A Lago assets that Trump refused to return to the White House were atomic in nature.

Regardless, failing to follow the basic procedures to declassify the documents - even after he did so by his perfect thoughts - and failure to return the classified docs even after being requested to do so for years... that's pretty bad. POTUS cannot claim ignorance to declassification procedures and the requests to return them. Besides, what's the old saying conservatives love, ignorance is no excuse?

It is telling that you jumped straight to criminal, not administrative or clearance-related penalties, and you should not be so haughty.

There's a process for declassifying. Tweeting aint it. As we'll learn via the Mar a Lago investigations, presidents cannot declassify thru sheer force of thought.