# Trump Claims About the Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents Probe, Fact-Checked ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## Metadata - Author:: [[mailchi.mp]] - Full Title:: Trump Claims About the Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents Probe, Fact-Checked - Category: #articles - URL: https://mailchi.mp/politifact/fact-check-trumps-falsehoods-about-mar-a-lago-documents?e=c3c39c1d61 ## Highlights #### President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!" > The National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, [said](https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/1558151577751490561?s=20&t=tlY5tZ_2zYkI1WSv-DsyaA) in response to Trump’s statement that "former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the presidential records of his administration." ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2njx765bnb69ys5hx3cjpen)) > The National Archives said it took custody of Obama’s presidential records when he left office. The arrangement to preserve Obama’s records has been publicly known since 2016, before he left office. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2njxhphbwhrndbw0wmaj8ty)) > Classified Obama presidential records are in a facility in the Washington, D.C., area. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2njxv016yqw9ekqxwsb3z6s)) #### Biden is obstructing by making it impossible to get the 1,850 boxes" of documents. > This is [unsupported](https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/apr/05/fact-checking-trumps-post-indictment-speech-at-mar/). Trump was [referring to](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/02/peggy-hubbard/was-a-tractor-trailer-worth-of-classified-document/) a [donation of](https://library.udel.edu/special/home/collections/joseph-r-biden-jr-senatorial-papers/) 1,850 boxes of Biden’s senatorial papers to the University of Delaware, which have been housed on the campus since June 2012, according to the university library. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2njzbbz4z3cg51yysbg01an)) > The FBI has conducted two searches of these papers, which CNN [reported](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/politics/biden-delaware-search/index.html) were carried out with the consent and cooperation of the president's legal team. The searches of the university collection followed FBI searches of Biden's homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and the Penn Biden Center’s Washington, D.C., office. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2nk0g5e7w1gvjry07k5n5wa)) # Trump Claims About the Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents Probe, Fact-Checked ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## Metadata - Author:: [[mailchi.mp]] - Full Title:: Trump Claims About the Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents Probe, Fact-Checked - Category: #articles - URL: https://mailchi.mp/politifact/fact-check-trumps-falsehoods-about-mar-a-lago-documents?e=c3c39c1d61 ## Highlights #### President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!" > The National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, [said](https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/1558151577751490561?s=20&t=tlY5tZ_2zYkI1WSv-DsyaA) in response to Trump’s statement that "former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the presidential records of his administration." ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2njx765bnb69ys5hx3cjpen)) > The National Archives said it took custody of Obama’s presidential records when he left office. The arrangement to preserve Obama’s records has been publicly known since 2016, before he left office. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2njxhphbwhrndbw0wmaj8ty)) > Classified Obama presidential records are in a facility in the Washington, D.C., area. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2njxv016yqw9ekqxwsb3z6s)) #### Biden is obstructing by making it impossible to get the 1,850 boxes" of documents. > This is [unsupported](https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/apr/05/fact-checking-trumps-post-indictment-speech-at-mar/). Trump was [referring to](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/02/peggy-hubbard/was-a-tractor-trailer-worth-of-classified-document/) a [donation of](https://library.udel.edu/special/home/collections/joseph-r-biden-jr-senatorial-papers/) 1,850 boxes of Biden’s senatorial papers to the University of Delaware, which have been housed on the campus since June 2012, according to the university library. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2njzbbz4z3cg51yysbg01an)) > The FBI has conducted two searches of these papers, which CNN [reported](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/politics/biden-delaware-search/index.html) were carried out with the consent and cooperation of the president's legal team. The searches of the university collection followed FBI searches of Biden's homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and the Penn Biden Center’s Washington, D.C., office. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2nk0g5e7w1gvjry07k5n5wa))