Prosecutors have evidence Trump showed classified papers to people – report

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[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have stated that I believe based on the Presidential Records Act, that you are wrong. You have simply said, "Nu Uh!"

What "you believe based on the Presidential Records Act", is not based on the Presidential Records Act.

Here is the definition of personal records from the Presidential Records Act:

Note the complete lack of "giv[ing] the President huge authority to declare documents his personal presidential record"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=44-USC-2035507102-1726767310&term_occur=999&term_src=title:44:chapter:22:section:2203

personal records

(3) The term “personal records” means all documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion therof, of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President. Such term includes— (A) diaries, journals, or other personal notes serving as the functional equivalent of a diary or journal which are not prepared or utilized for, or circulated or communicated in the course of, transacting Government business; (B) materials relating to private political associations, and having no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; and (C) materials relating exclusively to the President’s own election to the office of the Presidency; and materials directly relating to the election of a particular individual or individuals to Federal, State, or local office, which have no relation to or direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.

Trump is not "expressly legally permitted to have a lot of official documents, likely expressly classified ones, to build his personal presidential records".

A president doesn't own even those records that the archivist allows him to take to his library. The archivist is responsible for their storage and disposal, if they decide that any can be disposed of. There are massive protocols about moving and storage of classified documents, none of which include an ex-president taking them to his ballroom and leaving them on the stage. And then having recorded discussions about them, including showing them to people in two cases.

I don't know where you got the idea that they can just take classified documents, but it's not any law.

Read the law and stop repeating the TV propagandists.

Oh the irony.

The Presidential Records Act gives the President huge authority to declare documents his personal presidential records

Can you point on the paragraph of the presidential records act that does that? I cant see the part your talking about.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think you misunderstood... That is the Federal Records Act, not the Presidential Records Act.

The Federal Records Act has a narrower focus, such as just the communications to and from the President's advisors.

There's also the another transition act and tons of laws about the safe and peaceful transition of power, something generally enshrined across many longstanding laws, in fearful forethought. They also use law to choreograph every little thing about the transition, including a person responsible for it.