jrdaustin said:
Mondemonium's attempt at derail notwithstanding, here's my follow up:
As I understand the situation, there is necesarilly a time required in which the Archivist of NARA and the EOP have to determine what is Presidential, and what is Personal.
Members of an outgoing administration have days to get everything packed and out. Naturally, Presidential and Personal records will be comingled.
PRA desginates that a NARA "holding factility" be designated to house the records, but looking a recent precedent, the fact that Biden and Pence as VPs had boxes of records as well that contained classified documents indicates that there is not a difinitive process has been normally followed.
So my questions are:
1. Why did not NARA and/or the Biden administration have a facility designated to transport records to? And is this even a thing? What happened to the boxes of records under Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, & Obama while Personal records were being sorted from Presidential records.
2. Was it not Biden/NARA that originally authorized sending the docs to MAL?
(I would argue that the first Bush presidency might provide the only comparable example as GHWB was the only one-term president who had run for re-election and lost.) Were Bush's records sent to A&M? I do know that the library was not built yet. I'm not even sure ground was broken. So where did they go?
To me, these are the driving factors of whether this indictment holds water. To Mondemonium's derail, it is an inane argument to assert that Trump should have had to turn over all his Personal records along with Presidential records to avoid prosecution. And this is not about drinking a Beer. It's an administrative, process dispute that has been conflated to a crime for political purposes. Everyone knows it. Half the country is willing to admit it.
