The former president has again claimed he was allowed to remove documents from the White House durign a campaign rally in Ohio.
While presidential materials were removed from the White House at the end of the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations, they were still still maintained and owned by the National Archives and Records Administration and stored in a NARA facility
Under law introduced in the wake of the Watergate scandal, every presidential document must be sent to the National Archives when a president leaves office, which Trump is accused of failing to do by taking thousandsNone of the materials temporarily stored in NARA facilities were classified or top secret, or personally handled by the former presidents or their administrations.
"All such temporary facilities met strict archival and security standards, and have been managed and staffed exclusively by NARA employees," the National Archives said in an October 11 statement dismissing Trump's frequent claims. "Reports that indicate or imply that those Presidential records were in the possession of the former Presidents or their representatives, after they left office, or that the records were housed in substandard conditions, are false and misleading."
Also during the Dayton rally, Trump appeared to give yet another hint that he will finally confirm his"And I would say in the strongest way, it is a country-saving election," Trump said."I'm going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, November 15, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida."
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