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Septua

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Tue Jun 13, 2023, 11:40 AM Jun 2023

The Presidential Records Act, Part II. Correct me if I'm wrong... [View all]

The Presidential Records Act has nothing to do with Classified documents...a minor detail I previously overlooked.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title44/chapter22&edition=prelim

(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.


Classified Information is not a Presidential Record. Some other agency determines the need for classifying information, obviously. Trump could argue Presidential vs personal documents but he had nor has, no ownership rights to the classified stuff.




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