National Archives pours cold water on Fox narrative
Over the last few days on Fox News, you may have heard the network's personalities suggest Trump taking documents to Mar-a-Lago wasn't that big of a deal because Obama did it too. "Obama took 30 million documents back to Chicago for his library," host Jesse Watters said earlier this week. On Friday, host Brian Kilmeade wondered, “Where’s the 30 million documents with Obama admin – Obama has 30 million documents!" This, of course, was the same narrative Trump advanced as well.
On Friday afternoon, the National Archives responded with a statement pouring cold water on the narrative. It said that it "assumed exclusive legal and physical custody of Obama Presidential records when President Barack Obama left office in 2017, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act." The National Archives added that it "maintains the classified Obama Presidential records in a NARA facility" and that Obama "has no control over where and how NARA stores" the records...