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The Former Presidents need to ask NARA to view the documents at their offices and in a secure environment.Ah yes. When ignorance is exposed the subject must be changed immediately. It is asking for too much integrity to suggest an error should be acknowledged.
But I did read the indictment and what the Wall Street Journal said about it:
". . .But it’s striking, and legally notable, that the indictment never mentions the Presidential Records Act (PRA) that allows a President access to documents, both classified and unclassified, once he leaves office. It allows for good-faith negotiation with the National Archives. Yet the indictment assumes that Mr. Trump had no right to take any classified documents.
This doesn’t fit the spirit or letter of the PRA, which was written by Congress to recognize that such documents had previously been the property of former Presidents. If the Espionage Act means Presidents can’t retain any classified documents, then the PRA is all but meaningless. This will be part of Mr. Trump’s defense. . ."
Opinion | A Destructive Trump Indictment
Do prosecutors understand the forces they are unleashing?www.wsj.com
Not bring them in boxes to their homes and leave them lying around bathrooms, stages, bedrooms, and on someone's desk for anyone to see.
And a t Mar A Lago, there were hundreds of people walking around on a daily basis, not one of them authorized to see those documents, including Trump after he left the WH. Not without permission from NARA.