![]() ![]() ![]() That means no presidential records ever should have been transferred to Mar-a-Lago, and there was no further talking or negotiating to be had.” As of noon on January 20, 2021, when President Biden took office, all presidential records of the Trump Administration came into the legal custody of the Archivist of the United States. Baron, former director of litigation at NARA, told CNN in a March 2023 email: “The former President is simply wrong as a matter of law. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke to supporters along with former President Trump.(Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesĮxclusive: Donald Trump admits on tape he didn't declassify 'secret information' Republican Senate Candidate JD Vance and Rep. YOUNGSTOWN, OH - SEPTEMBER 17: Former President Donald Trump speaks at a Save America Rally to support Republican candidates running for state and federal offices in the state at the Covelli Centre on Septemin Youngstown, Ohio. 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.” Nothing in the law says there should be a negotiation between a former president and NARA over a former president’s return of presidential documents – much less that there should have been a monthslong battle after NARA first contacted Trump’s team in 2021 to try to get some of the records that had not been handed over at the end of his presidency. The Presidential Records Act says that, the moment a president leaves office, NARA gets custody and control of all presidential records from his administration. He made a similar claim at a CNN town hall in May, saying the law “says you talk, you negotiate, you make a deal.”įacts First: Trump’s claim is false. And if you can’t come to an agreement, you’re gonna continue to talk.” You discuss everything – not only docu– everything – about what’s going in NARA, et cetera, et cetera. Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law, says he was supposed to hold negotiations with the National Archives and Records Administration about the return of official documents after his presidency.įor example, he said in a March 2023 interview on Fox that the law is “very specific”: “It says you are going to discuss the documents. Here is a fact check of seven of the claims Trump has made about the investigation since the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago resort and residence in August 2022.įalse claim: Trump was following the Presidential Records Act by refusing to immediately return documents Former President Donald Trump has made numerous false and unsupported claims about the federal investigation into his handling of government documents, a probe he announced Thursday has resulted in his indictment. ![]()
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