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To: Williams
There is actually a legal definition of presidential records in the PRA:

(2) The term "Presidential records" means documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, the President's immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise or assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President. Such term—
(A) includes any documentary materials relating to the political activities of the President or members of the President's staff, but only if such activities relate to or have a direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; but
(B) does not include any documentary materials that are (i) official records of an agency (as defined in section 552(e) 1 of title 5, United States Code); (ii) personal records; (iii) stocks of publications and stationery; or (iv) extra copies of documents produced only for convenience of reference, when such copies are clearly so identified.

60 posted on 06/14/2023 5:38:05 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I am free at last!)
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To: CA Conservative

It excludes FOIA releasable documents. Also, Trump had COPIES of documents. The government has the originals in its possession. Trump had the authority to rip up these copies while he was President. If he could throw them in the garbage, he also had the authority to determine that the documents were no longer relevant to the national defense. They were presidential records and under the Sock Drawer case and others Trump had absolute authority as to how to dispose of the records.


100 posted on 06/14/2023 7:08:51 PM PDT by bort
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