The National Archives and Records Administration criticized former President Donald Trump's recent claims about his predecessor's handling of documents as "false and misleading."
During a Nevada rally Saturday night, Trump sought to escape intensifying criticism over his hoarding of documents in Mar-a-Lago by claiming that many of his predecessors, including former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush had similar presidential records foibles. The National Archives rejected that claim Tuesday.
"Reports that indicate or imply that those Presidential records were in the possession of the former Presidents or their representatives after they left office, or that the records were housed in substandard conditions, are false and misleading," the agency said in a statement.
Trump told rallygoers over the weekend that his predecessors moved presidential material into insecure locations following their departure from the White House.
“Barack Hussein Obama moved more than 20 truckloads, over 33 million pages of documents, both classified and unclassified, to a poorly built and unsafe former furniture store located in a bad neighborhood in Chicago. With no security, by the way,” Trump claimed, though there is no evidence to back up his allegations.
Trump also took aim at George H.W. Bush, whom he claimed stashed material in a bowling alley. Independent fact-checkers have slammed the claim, noting that the National Archives sifted through Bush's...
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