Ben Rhodes just said on MSNBC that there's no way Trump declassified all those documents

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6. More directly, had he declassified everything, the doj would have known that

Among the many steps I'm sure they took out of an abundance of caution before raising the home of a former president, I'm quite certain they would have checked to make sure that whatever materials he took were in fact still classified.

Note that the government maintains an inventory of all classified material, so they likely knew in advance exactly what materials were missing, at least for some of it.

Very very likely, they did at least some inventory any found certain classified documents missing. Seems pretty basic. You don't go looking for bank robbers if all the bank's money is still where it's supposed to be.