The National Archives, responding to Trump’s repeated claims, said in a statement Friday that it “assumed exclusive legal and physical custody” of Obama’s presidential records at the end of his term in 2017, “in accordance with the Presidential Records Act.”
The National Archives said it “moved approximately 30 million pages of unclassified records to a NARA facility in the Chicago area, where they are maintained exclusively by NARA.”
The documents will eventually be housed in a presidential library there. As required by law, Obama has “no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration,” the statement noted.
The National Archives said it “moved approximately 30 million pages of unclassified records to a NARA facility in the Chicago area, where they are maintained exclusively by NARA.”
The documents will eventually be housed in a presidential library there. As required by law, Obama has “no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration,” the statement noted.
