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Originally Posted by Mick
Not really.
This is in relation to National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) investigation in to records took from White House when Trump left office.
From Sky News:
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So the Trump-nominated Head of the FBI requests the search and Trump presents it as a Democratic political raid. I do hope he's not asking you and me to believe in such fairytales!
If he'd had any ounce of sense he would have returned the records immediately to NARA, they're not his property.
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What were the FBI looking for in Florida?
After Donald Trump's presidency ended in January last year, officials found he had taken 15 boxes from the White House to his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
This investigation was launched by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the independent US government body charged with preserving government and historical records.
After demanding he return the boxes, the NARA discovered in January this year they contained government documents, including ones "marked as classified national security information", as well as gifts, letters and mementos.
The NARA then referred the case to the US Justice Department to probe whether Mr Trump's unauthorised handling of the documents amounts to a violation of federal law.
Some of the documents in the boxes are subject to the Presidential Records Act.
Passed by Congress in wake of the 1972 Watergate Scandal, it dictates that presidential documents are not the then-president's property and should be handed over to the NARA when they leave office to be then made public 12 years later.
Mr Trump could have also potentially broken legislation on the appropriate handling of government documents while he was still in office or be charged for obstruction of justice if he was found to have been covering his tracks.
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https://news.sky.com/story/why-has-t...ating-12668890