What did Donald Trump claim about investigations on 12 Aug 2022?
Donald Trump, Former President of the United States and Republican Party leader ·
President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!
Obama does not keep them. The National Archives took custody of his records in 2017, holds about 30 million unclassified pages near Chicago and keeps the classified ones near Washington.
The National Archives said it took exclusive legal and physical custody of the Obama presidential records in 2017, moved about 30 million pages of unclassified records to a NARA facility near Chicago, and keeps the classified Obama records at a NARA facility in the Washington, D.C., area; Obama has no control over where or how they are stored (National Archives statement, August 12, 2022).
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The claim
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- Post on Truth Social (@realDonaldTrump), four days after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.
The record
Primary source (agency statement)