Donald Trump has falsely accused his predecessor Barack Obama of moving “33 million pages” of official documents to a “totally unsafe former furniture store” after demitting the Oval Office.
The former president also railed against US federal agencies probing his handling of sensitive government records in a speech at the Hispanic Leadership Conference organised by the America First Policy Insititute in Miami, Florida on Wednesday.
Using the event to attack his opponents, the former president claimed the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate is being used to “unjustly, illegally and unconstitutionally” target him as he called the federal investigation a “hoax”.
“So how do we know this document hoax is indeed a hoax or a charade?” he began. “Just look at how every other president has been treated when they left office. They’ve been given all the time needed and complete deference to their documents and their papers,” he said, claiming “no other president has been targeted” like him.
“Barack Hussein Obama moved more than 20 truckloads over 33 million pages of papers classified and unclassified to a poorly built and totally unsafe former furniture store with no security whatsoever,” he claimed, without showing evidence.
The National Archive and Records Administration (Nara) had previously debunked the claims, which Mr Trump has repeated often, saying it “assumed exclusive legal and physical custody of Obama Presidential records” when he left office in 2017.
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