Trump had more right, according to a 2012 court judgment, to take whatever he wanted from records when he left the WH, but that is not true for dirty Democrats like Hillary and Biden.
no the 2012 court ruling doesn't give trump the unilateral right to take any documents he wants, *****.
But legal experts say Trump’s description of the law — which isn’t mentioned in the charges against him — is wrong and contrary to its very purpose, while the 2012 legal case involving Clinton isn’t a sound comparison to Trump’s current legal predicament.
CLAIM: The Presidential Records Act gives a president the right to take any record when leaving office and declare them personal.
THE FACTS: That’s a flagrant misreading of the law, legal experts say.
The law, which took effect in 1981, requires the preservation of White House documents as property of the U.S. government.
Jason R. Baron, a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, said that the notion that a president could declare any record as personal goes against the “very reason” the law was created. NARA is the federal record-keeper and the agency that
repeatedly sought the documents kept by Trump
The law, he and other experts note,
clearly distinguishes between “presidential records” and “personal records.”
“The definition of ‘personal records’ is narrow, clear, and functional: it includes only records of a ‘purely private or nonpublic character’,” Peter Margulies, a professor at Roger Williams University’s School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island, wrote in an email. “Any record that touches on information relevant to presidential decisions on foreign policy or national security is a presidential record. Period, end of story.”
Josh Chafetz, a professor at Georgetown Law, agreed, saying there’s “simply no way” the records described in the indictment against Trump could be considered “personal” under the act’s definitions.
you're a legal *****. lol