Trump has repeatedly pointed to a case involving former President Bill Clinton in the wake of the indictment. 'Judge Amy Berman Jackson's decision states under the statutory scheme established by the Presidential Records Act, the decision to segregate personal materials from presidential records is made by the president during the president's term and in the president's sole discretion,' Trump said. 'And so this is not, in my view, going to provide a very strong sort of basis for defense against the charges in the indictment.' He alludes to a judge's decision in a case involving former President Bill Clinton 'There's no reason to think that the Presidential Records Act somehow overrides the Espionage Act,' Kwoka added. 'I think it is misleading because the Presidential Records Act just isn't the statute at issue,' Margaret Kwoka, a law professor at Ohio State University, told ABC News of Trump's remarks. Moreover, when NARA staff asked for the return of the records improperly taken, the former President should have immediately given NARA every official document in his possession.' 'Every piece of paper constituting an official document, whether it was classified or unclassified, should have been turned over to NARA. 'Under the Presidential Records Act, the Archivist of the United States assumed legal custody of all Trump White House official records immediately upon President Biden's swearing in as President,' Baron said. Baron, former director of litigation at NARA, told ABC News in an email. 'On the contrary, the former President had absolutely no right to have taken any presidential records with him to Mar A Lago,' Jason R. The 1978 law, not mentioned in the indictment, states just the opposite, as it requires records created by presidents and vice presidents be turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) at the end of their administrations. 'Under the Presidential Records Act, which is civil not criminal, I had every right to have these documents,' Trump said.

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