Trump had no legal right to take & keep classified or unclassified documents from the United States Government — That’s the law, period!

Let’s start with this clear fact under Federal Law. Donald Trump has no legal rights to house, control or take any declassified or classified federal records from his time in the White House after he left the position of President on January 20, 2021 at 12:01pm, via 13 specific Federal Statutes governing records and records management. This is clear, the laws aren’t debatable, but is not clearly reported in the Traditional Media and ignored by both the Conservative Mainstream Media and Radical MAGA GOP Media.

Purposeful misdirection and lies by Trump about classification or declassification of Federal records started this cycle of reporting on his criminal acts. Traditional Media has dutifully reported on it, with a varied level of experts, lawyers, constitutional scholars and detailed assessments of the various Federal Statutes affected by Trump’s actions, but they have deferred too much to reporting based upon his framing of the issues, which indirectly gives him some cover but really muddles the immediate impact of his criminal actions. Conservative and Radical MAGA GOP Media are just lying about the laws in play, Trump’s criminal culpability, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Constitution and any other…