Judge Aileen Cannon is considering throwing out a collection of sealed notes on Trump's behavior that practically prove that he knowingly stole and withheld classified documents from the U.S. government after he left office.
Fact check: Debunking Trump's blizzard of dishonesty about his federal indictment
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Trump's dealings with the National Archives and Records Administration
In the Georgia speech, Trump made this claim: "As a former president, we were negotiating with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), just as every other president has done, and the next thing I knew, Mar-a-Lago was raided by gun-toting FBI agents."
Facts First: These claims, too, are false in one way and highly misleading in another. It's not true that Trump was negotiating "just as every other president has done"; no other ex-president since the Presidential Records Act took effect with President Ronald Reagan's records in the 1980s has engaged in anything like Trump's protracted post-presidency refusal to return official documents sought by NARA " which the Presidential Records Act requires to be in NARA's custody and control the moment a president leaves office.
@#4 ... n the Georgia speech, Trump made this claim: "As a former president, we were negotiating with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), just as every other president has done, and the next thing I knew, Mar-a-Lago was raided by gun-toting FBI agents." ...
Timeline of the Trump Documents Inquiry (September 2022)
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... Below is a timeline of key events in the probe:
January 20, 2021
Trump departs the White House as Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as the nation's 46th president and heads to his private Florida estate known as Mar-a-Lago.
May 2021
The National Archives and Records Administration, also known as NARA, emails Trump's lawyers, notifying them that some two dozen boxes of original records were not turned over, according to The Washington Post.
December 2021
A Trump representative tells the National Archives "that they had located some records," according to a statement published later by the National Archives.
Mid-January 2022
The National Archives retrieves 15 boxes of presidential records from Trump's estate.
The nonpartisan presidential records agency said it "identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials" and sought permission to alert the FBI.
February 8, 2022
The National Archives issues a public statement saying it is still searching for more of Trump's presidential records, one day after The Washington Post reported the boxes were retrieved from Florida.
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February 18, 2022
The National Archives tells Congress that Trump took classified information to his Florida home after leaving the White House.
April 7, 2022
Sources confirm to Reuters that the U.S. Justice Department was investigating Trump's removal of official presidential records from the White House.
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June 3, 2022
A Trump representative, whose name is redacted in the Justice Department filing, asserts that "a diligent search" was conducted for documents at Mar-a-Lago removed from the White House and that "any and all responsive documents accompany this certification."
August 8, 2022
Federal agents execute a search warrant at Trump's Florida property, uncovering 13 boxes or containers with documents marked classified " "more than twice the amount produced June 3 in response to the grand jury subpoena." Trump was not at the property at the time, and media reports showed him at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
A photo released in a court filing later that month shows some of the seized documents with clear markings of "Top Secret" and "Secret."
Trump, in a post online, says the records were "all declassified" and placed in "secure storage." A day later, Trump, who continues to hint at a possible 2024 run for the presidency, cites the FBI search in a campaign fundraising appeal.
August 12, 2022
The FBI's search warrant is released to the public following approval by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart.
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September 2, 2022
The FBI reveals in a court filing that it recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during the August 8 search of Trump's estate, as well as 48 empty folders labeled as "classified."
U.S. judge agrees to appoint special master in Trump search case. ...
One thing that is always said but is wrong is that Trump took the documents to Mar-a-lago. He didn't, National Archives did. It was always that they had GSA rent a secure facility in the hometown of the former President , deliver all the documents, and then the former President, under security, would go through the boxes and sort out what he would take and what he would leave. Obama-Chicago, Bush-Houston, etc. Why would the National archives handle this on differently? Makes you want to say Hmmmmmm.
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The statement that "Trump didn't take the documents to Mar-a-Lago; the National Archives did" is inaccurate. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) did not transport the documents to Mar-a-Lago. Instead, NARA retrieved 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago in January 2022, which included classified materials.
The claim that NARA typically rents a secure facility in the former president's hometown for sorting documents is also not supported by the facts. NARA clarified that there is no history, practice, or legal provision for presidents to take official records with them to sort through after leaving office. The Presidential Records Act mandates that all presidential records must be handed over to NARA at the end of a president's term.
Therefore, the assertion that NARA handled Trump's documents differently compared to other former presidents like Obama or Bush is incorrect.
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Damn you dumb.
Swallow it.
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