Theories on Why Trump Doesnt Declassify the FISA Documents Rush Limbaugh has been on this all week, and today he (frustratedly) tried to recap: 1) One school of thought is that Trump is waiting to get closer to the election to declassify and release all of this so that it will have an impact on people’s vote-making decisions. 2) The President is not releasing is because it is so devastating to all the people you’re thinking about. It is so bad those people would never want this stuff to come out. It would destroy them, it would ruin their integrity, their reputations, and Trump knows it. Trump knows it, he can see these documents without having them declassified. The ongoing theory is that Trump knows this, and because of this, he’s got a huge amount of leverage over all these people. As long as he is assured that when everybody wraps this up, that it’s gonna be a big bunch of nothing, that Mueller’s not gonna end up having anything except a tawdry little report. That nothing’s gonna happen to anybody in the Trump campaign or anything of the sort because otherwise Trump’s gonna unload this stuff. 3) There’s also a theory that in the FISA application, in addition to the stuff on the Steele dossier, the lying, stinking dossier, the lies that Hillary paid for, that it’s not intelligence, that it was nothing more than political opposition research, that the FISA application itself contains really, really bad allegations about Trump and his immoral, amoral life that Trump doesn’t want made public. And so that’s not in his best interests; so that’s why he’s not releasing this and declassifying it. 4) Look, folks, your guess on this is as good as mine. He’s not doing it yet for some reason. Rush Limbaugh transcript