President Trump might consider such records to be ‘his,’ but they are not.” Baron, former director of litigation at NARA, said in a Sunday email: “Under the Presidential Records Act, not a single document pertaining to the official business of the White House – classified or unclassified – should have been carted off to Mar-A-Lago. The key sentence from the Presidential Records Act is unequivocal: “Upon the conclusion of a President’s term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President.” By having official records at Mar-a-Lago after his presidency, Trump was in clear contravention of that law.
The Presidential Records Act says that all presidential records belong to the federal government the moment the president leaves office. Trump claimed that the documents he had at Mar-a-Lago were “his own documents” and that he “had every right” to keep them under the Presidential Records Act.įacts First: This is false. Here is a fact check of some of the things he said in the Tuesday night address from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump, who pleaded not guilty, has been persistently dishonest about matters related to the indictment.
Former President Donald Trump made numerous false and misleading claims in a speech he delivered Tuesday night following his afternoon arraignment in Miami federal court to face charges of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the federal investigation into his conduct.
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