For the past four decades, every presidential document — from notebook doodles to top-secret security plans — is supposed to go directly to the National Archives as the material is considered the property of the American people.
So when former President Donald Trump left office on Jan. 20, 2021, all his records should have traveled from the White House to the National Archives, according to Jason R. Baron, who served as director of litigation at the National Archives for 13 years.
No president has the right to retain presidential records after he or she leaves office," Baron said. "And so it is an extraordinary circumstance if presidential records are found in a former president's residence or anywhere else under his control."
In 1978, Congress passed the more sweeping Presidential Records Act that has been the standard ever since.
"Every president, when they leave office, those records that have been created by the president and his staff are presidential records that go to the National Archives," Baron said. "The owner is the American people."
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/13/1117297065/trump-documents-history-national-archives-law-watergate
Another massive pile of loony bile from NPR. No wonder you're such an uninformed, low IQ, uneducated, race hustling dumbass.
