But if he declares them personal presidential records, that’s the end of that.
I thought it was supposed to be personal or presidential.
“In 1978, Congress passed the Presidential Records Act (PRA), which states that any records created or received by the President as part of his constitutional, statutory, or ceremonial duties are the property of the United States government and will be managed by NARA at the end of the administration.”
What I’m saying is that it doesn’t really matter to the indictment what the papers are. If the government said, “Give us those rocks. You were supposed to leave them here” and a judge said, “Yeah, give the government back those rocks,” then he was supposed to return them. Smith is saying he kept the rocks, lied about having the rocks, and hid the rocks.
Making public that they were defense documents was just to smear the president.