FBI Raid On Trump's Mar-A-Lago Had No Valid Legal Basis

When he becomes an ex president, you're damn right I do! Those records do not go with you!

A president can negotiate something special to them, like Kim J Un's letter, with NARA...and they may let the president keep the original, after the Archives makes a copy, for their presidential records.

Lets hope Biden obeys all laws now and after his Presidency.
 
ITs is utterly amazing how this thing is unraveling, and the left still tries to hang onto the lies that have been clearly debunked.

The democrat desperation is so thick you could cut it with a knife. Every single one of the libs here are now regurgitating the same lies over and over hoping their lies will become truth.
 
Trump is scraping the bottom of the barrel for lawyers.

BWHAAAAAA you all are desperate to keep him from defending himself..... Not going to work... You all are epic failures...
 
All paperwork of his administration are HIS to control. You're reaching again. Read the PRA.
All presidential records belong to the public! The former president has custody on whether to have the archives release any info for five years...an individual request to release documents before 5 years, like from a historian, trump would have to give permission for the archives to release.

It has worked this way for decades and for every president.

Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978​

The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. ß2201-2209, governs the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents that were created or received after January 20, 1981 (i.e., beginning with the Reagan Administration). The PRA changed the legal ownership of the official records of the President from private to public, and established a new statutory structure under which Presidents, and subsequently NARA, must manage the records of their Administrations. The PRA was amended in 2014, which established several new provisions.

Specifically, the PRA:

  • Establishes public ownership of all Presidential records and defines the term Presidential records.
  • Requires that Vice-Presidential records be treated in the same way as Presidential records.
  • Places the responsibility for the custody and management of incumbent Presidential records with the President.
  • Requires that the President and his staff take all practical steps to file personal records separately from Presidential records.
  • Allows the incumbent President to dispose of records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value, once the views of the Archivist of the United States on the proposed disposal have been obtained in writing.
  • Establishes in law that any incumbent Presidential records (whether textual or electronic) held on courtesy storage by the Archivist remain in the exclusive legal custody of the President and that any request or order for access to such records must be made to the President, not NARA.
  • Establishes that Presidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.
  • Establishes a process by which the President may restrict and the public may obtain access to these records after the President leaves office; specifically, the PRA allows for public access to Presidential records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) beginning five years after the end of the Administration, but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years.
  • Codifies the process by which former and incumbent Presidents conduct reviews for executive privilege prior to public release of records by NARA (which had formerly been governed by Executive order 13489).
  • Establishes procedures for Congress, courts, and subsequent Administrations to obtain “special access” to records from NARA that remain closed to the public, following a privilege review period by the former and incumbent Presidents; the procedures governing such special access requests continue to be governed by the relevant provisions of E.O. 13489.
  • Establishes preservation requirements for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts: any individual creating Presidential records must not use non-official electronic messaging accounts unless that individual copies an official account as the message is created or forwards a complete copy of the record to an official messaging account. (A similar provision in the Federal Records Act applies to federal agencies.)
  • Prevents an individual who has been convicted of a crime related to the review, retention, removal, or destruction of records from being given access to any original records.
 
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You’re an idiot. The NARA has stated that the bulk of them are in a warehouse that THEY control in Chicago and any classified docs are under their control in DC.

Who told you that lie?

Never listen to them again
The bulk of them? So, say 25 million? Where are the other 5 million?
 
All presidential records belong to the public! The former president has custody on whether to have the archives release any info for five years...an individual request to release documents before 5 years, like from a historian, trump would have to give permission for the archives to release.

It has worked this way for decades and for every president.

Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978​

The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. ß2201-2209, governs the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents that were created or received after January 20, 1981 (i.e., beginning with the Reagan Administration). The PRA changed the legal ownership of the official records of the President from private to public, and established a new statutory structure under which Presidents, and subsequently NARA, must manage the records of their Administrations. The PRA was amended in 2014, which established several new provisions.

Specifically, the PRA:

  • Establishes public ownership of all Presidential records and defines the term Presidential records.
  • Requires that Vice-Presidential records be treated in the same way as Presidential records.
  • Places the responsibility for the custody and management of incumbent Presidential records with the President.
  • Requires that the President and his staff take all practical steps to file personal records separately from Presidential records.
  • Allows the incumbent President to dispose of records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value, once the views of the Archivist of the United States on the proposed disposal have been obtained in writing.
  • Establishes in law that any incumbent Presidential records (whether textual or electronic) held on courtesy storage by the Archivist remain in the exclusive legal custody of the President and that any request or order for access to such records must be made to the President, not NARA.
  • Establishes that Presidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.
  • Establishes a process by which the President may restrict and the public may obtain access to these records after the President leaves office; specifically, the PRA allows for public access to Presidential records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) beginning five years after the end of the Administration, but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years.
  • Codifies the process by which former and incumbent Presidents conduct reviews for executive privilege prior to public release of records by NARA (which had formerly been governed by Executive order 13489).
  • Establishes procedures for Congress, courts, and subsequent Administrations to obtain “special access” to records from NARA that remain closed to the public, following a privilege review period by the former and incumbent Presidents; the procedures governing such special access requests continue to be governed by the relevant provisions of E.O. 13489.
  • Establishes preservation requirements for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts: any individual creating Presidential records must not use non-official electronic messaging accounts unless that individual copies an official account as the message is created or forwards a complete copy of the record to an official messaging account. (A similar provision in the Federal Records Act applies to federal agencies.)
  • Prevents an individual who has been convicted of a crime related to the review, retention, removal, or destruction of records from being given access to any original records.
 
Nope! Cash Patel claims it, who is lying.

You can't wave a magic wand to declassify secrets and top secrets....
...but a sitting President is a 'Declassifying Agent', which means he has the authority to declassify / order the declassification of almost any information he wants to.

I can't believe YOU don't know this, despite your seemingly attempt to pass yourself off as some 'expert' on the subject, giving your OPINIONiof what Trump could/ could not do.
 
Nope... You got it screwed up by listening to MadCow. The President may possess all administrations documents but must allow national archives access to them. All of which was happening.
Backwards. National Archives possess the documents and allow the former president to access them.
 

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