Nearly a year later, Team Trump is still claiming there's some meaningful parallel between how Barack Obama and Donald Trump handled classified materials. As stevebenen writes, reality suggests otherwise.
, “President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!”explainedAs was reported back in late 2016, the Obama team was transferring the records to Chicago through the National Archives, which legally owns the documents once a president leaves office.
Obama also, of course, didn’t defy a federal subpoena or take alleged steps to obstruct an official retrieval process.a written statementAnd yet, he keeps making them. During the Republican’s recent town-hall event on CNN declared, “You know who else took [classified materials]? Obama took them.”a day later, “[T]he National Archives and Records Administration, which preserves and maintains records after a president leaves office, has said in a statement that Mr.
Last night, the Republican lawyer lent his voice to the idea that there’s some meaningful parallel between how the Democratic former president handled materials and how Trump did. There still isn’t. Stepping back, the problem is not just the fact that this line of argument is wrong. Rather, what’s striking is that after all this time, Team Trump still hasn’t come up with more believable claims.
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