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What are the rules around ex-presidents’ paperwork?

13 August 2022

9:00 AM

13 August 2022

9:00 AM

Tracing paper

FBI agents raided Donald Trump’s estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, in search of papers he is accused of removing illegally from the White House. What are the rules?

— The Presidential Records Act, passed in 1978 in the wake of Watergate, makes clear that documents relating to a president’s time in office are public property.

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