The former president tried to connect the raid to the Watergate burglars. His privacy problems do relate to Nixon’s scandal—but not in the way he thinks.
is the Class of 1937 Professor of Law at Tulane Law School. Her latest book, published in April by Viking, isTrump didn’t use the word “privacy” in his posted complaint about Monday’s FBI search, but his use of such punctuation suggests that he believes he has a right to just that. He also called the raid an “assault,” suggested that Mar-a-Lago was “under siege,” and asked about the difference between this series of events and Watergate.
. That law, inspired by Watergate, makes what many presidents might consider private White House documents—including President Richard Nixon’s infamous tapes—into more public ones. “The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records,” the law reads.
all books, correspondence, memoranda, documents, papers, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photographs, plats, maps, films, and motion pictures, including but not limited to, audio and visual records, or other electronic or mechanical recordations, whether in analog, digital, or any other form”That means that no matter how the FBI’s search ends in a criminality sense, the public could soon see whatever Trump wanted kept secret.
This is not to say that a former president has no privacy rights in material created while in office; Donald Trump’s exclamation point and concern for his safe could potentially be valid. Even the Presidential Records Act suggests that a former president’s “personal records”—those
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