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To: Signalman
Presidential Records Act allows Trump to keep classified documents.

Incorrect in my opinion, and I read the exact law several times, and heard actual lawyers debate both sides.

The PRA allows a President to keep “personal records” which are almost always something the President created himself. The Bill Clinton “sock” recordings fall into that type of document. However any documents that were originally created by the government, and simply used, or referenced by a President while in office, are called “Presidential Records” and still belong to the government.

In a nutshell, Trump is attempting to claim these classified documents that were originally created by the DoD etc were his “personal records” which is completely contrary to what the law says.

The PRA is also not a criminal law, and does not discuss the handling of classified information, as that scope is the purview of higher level federal criminal statues that would supersede the PRA in cases involving classified information.

You’re welcome make your own determinations about it, and the judge may rule in Trump’s favor anyway, but a simple reading of the PRA which is not a complex document makes it clear the information in question is Presidential in nature, not personal. Trump is just attempting to claim the PRA protects him by his attempted misclassification of the document type as personal records, when he didn’t create any of them to begin with.

10 posted on 03/14/2024 11:22:04 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (It is far easier to fool someone, than to convince them that they've been fooled. )
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To: Golden Eagle

You twist the facts like a pretzel. Your boundless hatred of President Trump as he endures persecution by satan and his minions is evil and disgusting.


12 posted on 03/14/2024 11:28:16 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Golden Eagle

No one gives a crap what you think


25 posted on 03/14/2024 3:45:37 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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