Former President Donald Trump has tried to deflect the blame from allegations he improperly stored classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate by falsely accusing his predecessors of mishandling their own records upon leaving office.
An Oct. 9 tweet shows a clip of Trump at an Oct. 8 Nevada rally claiming that former President George H. W. Bush took his records to a surprising location.
"George H. W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them," Trump said in the clip. "So they're in a bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant."
Bush's son, Jeb Bush, tweeted in response: “I am so confused. My dad enjoyed a good Chinese meal and enjoyed the challenge of 7 10 split. What the heck is up with you?”
A screenshot of the Twitter exchange was shared to Facebook on Oct. 10, where it accumulated over 100 shares in a week.
But the claim is false.
The National Archives and Records Administration gained control of George H. W. Bush's records in 1993 when he left office in accordance with the 1978 Presidential Records Act, according to a statement. The agency stored his records in a temporary facility that was once a bowling alley and Chinese restaurant.
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