"It's not theirs, Its mine"

Yay for you. That's one that was of public interest. Also a great boast. Go ahead, put in a FOIA request for SEAL ops in Afghanistan. There are tons of classified documents. How do the agencies know which the President has decided to declassify?
The op was classified until the action. Declassified after itā€™s reported
 
For Trumpworld, a library has been little more than an afterthought, six past and present advisers say. As an ex-president bent on being a future president, Trump hasnā€™t wanted to leave an impression that his focus has shifted to his legacy. Erecting a library at this point would be the political equivalent of building a mausoleum: a sign that his career in elective politics was dead, some close to him said.

Advisers describe discussions about a Trump presidential library over the years as off and on. One ex-adviser recalled looking at Florida property maps during meetings in the small White House dining room near the Oval Office. A longtime Trump adviser said that Trump allies were ā€œscouting locationsā€ in the Palm Beach area, home to Mar-a-Lago. (A joke among those involved in the planning was that they would put the library in Greenland, the island that Trump entertained buyingmidway through his term, one person close to him said.)

Another person close to Trump who spoke briefly to him about a library earlier this year said, ā€œHe didnā€™t seem terribly interested. He wasnā€™t like, ā€˜I gotta get my library going.ā€™ Heā€™s more interested in being president again.ā€

One Trump confidant, who, as was the case with others, spoke on condition of anonymity to speak more freely, added: ā€œPresidential libraries are for ex-presidents. Heā€™s a next president. Heā€™s coming back.ā€

A Trump spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment about plans for a library. In a court appearance last week, Trump attorney Chris Kise said there was nothing nefarious about a former president holding records from his tenure. Rather, he said, the mix of material found at Mar-a-Lago ā€œis what you would expect if you looked through a bunch of boxes that were moved in a hurry from a residence or an office. It contains all sorts of things.ā€

If Trumpā€™s plan was to route the records to a future library, he went about it the wrong way, former National Archives officials say.

All he needed to do is what he was supposed to have done in the first place: Give every presidential record back to the U.S. government upon leaving office, as the Presidential Records Act of 1978 requires. Once his library was up and running, he could then have gone to the National Archives and asked for a loan of documents he wanted to exhibit, as past presidents have done. Former President Barack Obamaā€™s presidential library, for example, expects to display his speeches and the gifts he received over his two terms ā€” all loaned by the National Archives.

Robert Clark, a former National Archives official at the Franklin D. Roosevelt library in Hyde Park, New York, said every president was entitled to build a library.

ā€œBut there is a process. He canā€™t just store the stuff in his garage until the library gets built. Thatā€™s not how it works,ā€ Clark said.

One of Trumpā€™s worries was that a library would end up showing material that painted him in an unflattering light, said a former senior White House official. He wanted some control over what the library would contain, the source added.

Modern presidential libraries have two main components: a trove of presidential records overseen by the National Archives, and a museum open to the public. Ex-presidents arenā€™t supposed to control the records that the library collects.

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[ Same thing he did with the Media, the CIA, the Post Office, with Elections, and the FBI during his administration . Some things never change ]

 

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