On Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 10:46:30 AM UTC-4, NoBody wrote in talk.politics.misc:
On 18 Jun 2023 12:03:12 -0000, [email protected] (Bradley K. Sherman)
wrote:
| ...
| After Trump's arraignment, he gave a speech in which he
| said, "Under the Presidential Records Act, which is civil,
| not criminal, I had every right to have those documents."
|
| In criminal law, the "I had every right to have those
| documents" part is known as a confession.
|
| (Remember: Trump was charged with "willful retention" of
| national security documents and obstructing an
| investigation. By claiming that he had the right to have
| the documents, he is acknowledging that he willfully
| retained them. His stated belief that he was allowed to
| have them under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) is not a
| defense because, under the law, it doesn't matter why he
| kept them. What matters is that he "willfully" kept them.)
| ...
<https://terikanefield.com/trumps-second-indictment-part-iii-trump-confessed-to-the-crime-now-lets-bust-a-few-myths/>
--bks
Yet he has every right to have them under the records act ...
Only before January 21, 2021.
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