Karl Rove says Trump violated the Presidential Records Act,and NARA continually asked for return of documents.. AND he said it on Fox News no less.
@newfie As always i enjoy educating you , so lets continue your education on this matter by reading what Karl Rove said about the Presidential Records Act. Seems John Bolton isnt the only Senior Whitehouse Official to say your Lord and Saviour Donald Trump acted improperly:
“Why he was holding on to these materials when he had no legal authority to do so under the Presidential Records Act is beyond me,” Rove said on Fox News, referring to a decades-old law.
Rove, who served as a senior adviser to former President George W. Bush, also said the affidavit indicated that Trump stonewalled government officials’ repeated requests over several months to return documents that should have been given to the National Archives at the end of his presidential term.
“It is clear that beginning sometime in early 2021 through January of 2022 ... the National Archives and Records Administration was continually asking for the return of all material,” he said.
That would contradict a claim made by Trump after the FBI search that the documents would have been provided if requested.
“Trump has said several times all they had to do was ask. Well, my sense is they were asking for a year and a half,” Rove told Fox News host Sandra Smith.
The Presidential Records Act clearly states that “a president does not have the right to leave the White House and pick and choose what documents he wants to take with him,” Rove added.
“He can ask for copies, but those are the property of the American people. And since 1978, no president has left ... picking and choosing their own documents.”
