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Former president Donald Trump touted an “absolute right” for presidents to keep — and return — documents as they please, while making a famous defense at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s annual conference on Saturday.
Trump, who pleaded not guilty to 37 charges related to his handling of classified documents, has earlierclaimed that the Presidential Records Act gives him the right to record records – a claim that legal experts have challenged, according to Associated Press.
The former president once again turned to the defense before a mostly pro-Trump crowd on Saturday.
“Whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has an absolute right to take them,” Trump claimed. who called out the act’s name earlier in his comments.
“He has an absolute right to keep them or he can return them to NARA if he wants, he talks to them like we did and he can do that if he wants. That is the law and it couldn’t be clearer.”
Twitter users weighed in on Trump’s claims, arguing that the former president “making this very easy for Jack Smith”, the special counsel overseeing the investigation of classified documents.
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