The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration said on Friday that former President Barack Obama did not take classified documents from the White House as former President Donald Trump said in a baseless claim on social media after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
The National Archives released a statement rejecting Trump's claims writing that the archives "assumed exclusive legal and physical custody" at the time he left office,
Axios reported. The statement said former President Obama "has no control over where and how" the documents are stored or kept.
The National Archives corrected former President Trump, writing that while 30 million pages of unclassified documents were moved to a facility in Chicago, those documents were moved from the Obama administration's custody at the White House to a facility that the National Archives maintains, the
New York Times reported.
The archives said the documents that went to Chicago are unclassified, and any classified documents remain at a facility in Washington, D.C.
Donald Trump claimed without evidence after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago that former President Obama took millions of pages of classified documents to Chicago.
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