I don't know why I keep defending Trump. I like the Desantis-Biden 2024 matchup.
1. The Clinton tape precedent is all about what Trump calls "personal property". According to the Clinton ruling, if Trump has it, its his personal property.
It doesn't matter what "Trump calls 'personal property'". What matters is the document definitions in the law.
But in general, false. That's not what the Clinton Case ruling was, some people have tried to cram dicta (is short for the Latin phrase obiter dictum, meaning "something said in passing") as being part of the court ruling when it's not. The core case in the Clinton Tapes case was about Judicial Watch trying to force the NARA to do something and the court ruled they couldn't.
It never addressed as a core legal question whether documents clearly defined as Presidential Records under the PRA could be transformed into Personal Records. The tapes were clearly Personal Records as a memoranda to be used for history, not as a means of documenting the functioning of the office.
2. What is the stipulated time Trump has to return classified docs? His new excuse is that he needed more time to review the docs personally.
End of his term which was January 20, 2021.
3. I hope congress adds more definitive "who does what by when" protocols to the PRA.
The PRA is fine and the time frame is clearly defined, the FPOTUS choose to ignore it.
WW