Donald Trump said that they broke into his safe after the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
A man who thinks a safe is beyond the pale has had a bad week. A federal appeals court decided on Tuesday that the House can have access to Trump's tax returns, despite the fact that FBI agents entered Trump's Palm Beach home as part of a criminal investigation.
Trump didn't use the word "privacy" in his post, but his use of the word suggests that he has a right to that. He said that Mar-a-Lago was under siege and asked about the difference between this series of events and Watergate.
The question is apt for a number of reasons, including the fact that the former president meant to link the FBI to the Watergate culprits. Both of Trump's recent privacy problems are related to Watergate and Nixon. The former president is on the losing side of privacy.
The Presidential Records Act is connected to the FBI's search at Mar-a-Lago. The law was inspired by Watergate and makes private White House documents more public. The law states that the US must retain complete ownership, possession, and control of presidential records.
The Mar-a-Lago safe was covered by the Presidential Records Act. All books, correspondence, documents, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photographs, plats, maps, films, and motion pictures are included.
The public could soon see what Trump wanted kept secret even if the FBI's search ends in a criminal way. The Archivist of the United States is in charge of presidential records once a president leaves office, which is bad news for the former leader.
Even though a former president may think differently, the public still deserves to know what happened in the nation's top office. One federal judge wrote about the Presidential Records Act and its balance of privacy and presidential privilege, saying that Donald Trump is not the president. The appeals court in that case dismissed Trump's generalized concerns for Executive Branch confidentiality, explaining that "we have one President at a time" and that a former president's sense of confidentiality was also dismissed.
Donald Trump is not saying that a former president has no privacy rights in material created while in office, but he is saying that he is concerned for his safe. The Presidential Records Act states that a former president's personal records can be kept. We will never see former President Trump's diaries, journals, or other personal notes related to his "private political associations" or those that involve "exclusively" The Archivist is the person who assesses the evidence to figure out which category any particular record is in.
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