The FBI raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago home on Monday.
After his term, Obama transferred his records to Chicago.
The National Archives owns the records which allowed Obama to do so.
Donald Trump is no longer satisfied with only talking about Hillary Clinton's emails when it comes to answering questions about his actions.
The former president and his allies are not giving up on their claims about the president.
The FBI executed a search warrant on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. The National Archives asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Trump broke the law when he took classified government records with him to Mar-a-Lago, according to several reports.
The what aboutism defense of Obama transferring records from the White House to Chicago was delivered by Trump and his allies on Fox News.
The documents were taken from the White House to Chicago by Barack Hussein Obama. He wouldn't give them back. On Truth Social, Trump wrote. What is happening?" The act was at odds with the organization. Will they be going into Obama's house?
The New York Post opinion piece supported the baseless accusations made by the former president and his son.
The facts don't jive with Trump's words.
Thousands of Obama's documents were taken to Chicago. The items were shipped to a federal government facility, which is what is supposed to happen with a president's records. Federal law requires presidents and their administrations to keep a detailed collection of emails, documents, and gifts from their time in office.
The National Archives took legal ownership of Obama's papers and began the process of sorting through them before the public could see them. The process that is supposed to happen is when the material is turned over to the library.
The first digital archives for the first digital president will be paid for by the Obama Foundation, which will break from the norm of paying for unclassified records to be uploaded.
Five years after the end of Barack Obama's presidency, the records transferred to his library have yet to be made available to the public, drawing on a line from a New York Post column.
The process of transferring the records themselves can take years, not to mention the task of uploading 30 million documents to be made available online.
The Washington Post reported that the feds took at least a dozen boxes of material from the former president's Mar-a-Lago home. The FBI searched for documents that should have been turned over at the end of Trump's term in order to see if he took them with him.
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