On Aug. 12, former President Donald Trump issued a statement saying: “President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified.” PolitiFact checks his claim.
NEWS AVAILABLE ON HULU AND THE WRAL APP ON YOUR TV OR STREAMING DEVICE. >> AFTER THE FBI REMOVED DOCUMENTS FROM FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO RESIDENCE. TRUMP ACCUSED ANOTHER FORMER PRESIDENT OF HOLDING ONTO SENSITIVE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. PAUL SPAY CHECKS THAT CLAIM FOR POLITIFACT. >> THE FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA KEEP CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS EVEN AFTER HE LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE. THAT’S WHAT FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAID IN A STATEMENT THE OTHER DAY AFTER THE FBI SEARCHED TRUMP’S HOME. HE PUT OUT THIS STATEMENT THAT SAYS OBAMA KEPT 33 MILLION PAGES OF DOCUMENTS. MANY OF WHICH WERE CLASSIFIED AND THEN TRUMP GOES ON TO SPECULATE THAT SOME MIGHT EVEN CONTAIN REFERENCES TO THE US NUCLEAR PROGRAM. BUT THERE’S NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS CLAIM. WHEN OBAMA LEFT OFFICE, MULTIPLE NEWS AGENCIES REPORTED ON THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TAKING CONTROL OF HIS WHITE HOUSE RECORDS WHICH THEY’RE REQUIRED TO DO BY LAW TRUMP’S STATEMENT SUGGESTED THE ARCHIVES ARE EITHER OKAY WITH OBAMA KEEPING RECORDS ARE SOMEHOW UNAWARE THAT HE KEPT SOME OF THEM . SO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION KNOWN AS NA RESPONDED WITH THIS STATEMENT. ARCHIVES ADMINISTRATORS SAY THEY NOT OBAMA HAVE 30 MILLION PAGES OF UNCLASSIFIED RECORDS AT A FACILITY IN THE CHICAGO AREA. THEY ARE ALSO CLASSIFIED CONTROLLED BOMBS. PRESIDENT PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS AT A FACILITY NEAR WASHINGTON AND FINALLY, THEY SAID THAT OBAMA HAS NO CONTROL OVER WHERE HIS PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ARE STORED. . AND THAT’S WHY THE TRUTH METER STATEMENT.