Over the last week disgraced former President Trump and his fans have been claiming that President Biden’s Obama-era classified documents fuckup is worse than the Mar-a-Lago situation because, as Vice President at the time, Biden never had the authority to declassify such documents. That Trump and his lawyers still have yet to publicly produce literally any evidence whatsoever that the fat bastard had actually declassified the documents the FBI found he had stolen from the White House – let alone assert it before a judge – hasn’t been mentioned in this new line, but it’s not like they have a lot to work with. The fanboys just take it as an article of faith that Trump declassified the docs and also that the FBI planted them to frame him – depending on which day of the week it is.
Anyway it turns out this theoretical quantum superposition is even more meaningless than it was previously, as Politifact have identified Executive Order 13526, signed on December 29th, 2009 by President Obama, specifically authorizing the Vice President of the United States to classify and declassify government documents at will. Neither Trump nor Biden have rescinded EO 13526 or superseded it with a subsequent executive order, thus it remains in effect to this day.
No, it does not appear that Biden ever took steps to declassify the documents that ended up in his home and office in 2017, but that he was not able to at the time was supposed to be the huge difference between he and the Orange God Emperor. Well now he was. Thanks Obama!