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Re: FBI searches former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate
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Originally Posted by Mick
all former presidents take records with them, then further negotiate with NARA, when out of office, to determine what is a presidential record or not.
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I'm not sure that's the case. I believe it's the other way around. Any disposal of documents happens before a President leaves office, and anything that remains is automatically and legally not theirs.
https://www.archives.gov/presidentia.../1978-act.html
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Allows the incumbent president to dispose of records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value, once he or she has obtained the views of the Archivist of the United States on the proposed disposal in writing.
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Establishes that Presidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.
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https://www.archives.gov/presidentia...types.html#pra
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The Archivist is required to take custody of these records when the President leaves office, and to maintain them in a Federal depository
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Last edited by BenMcr; 13-08-2022 at 20:35.
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