Use your common sense. If the POTUS is the only person in the country who can declassify any document (a fact), then he does not have to follow "procedures" imposed by some other person or entity. That would mean he is not the ultimate declassification authority. What you are reading refers to everyone except the POTUS.
Well then, in that case why has his legal team not made this the central claim in his defense then?
Because as dumb as they are, they also know it isn't true.
Also, you would actually have to be the POTUS at the time of declassification in order to declassify it. They were still classified when the feds seized them. And Trumpy was NOT the POTUS then.
