[Hypo2]

Any docs removed by the President are automatically declassified, that is the point that needs to be made.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Any docs removed by the President are automatically declassified

I keep reading this from no other place but here in FR, but I don’t see this being acknowledged anywhere else.

However, It looks to me like Declassifying a classified document requires FORMAL STEPS and PROCEDURES to be followed so that there is documentation that declassification was indeed done.