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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 5388701" data-attributes="member: 33372">Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss said Trumps claim of Obama having 33 million documents was wrong“<a href="https://thehill.com/people/barack-obama/" target="_blank">Barack Obama </a>has tens of millions of documents, and they are in a National Archives installation, Hoffman Estates, Ill., under armed guard with heavy surveillance, using the procedures that are supposed to be used for a former president,” he added.The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has also debunked Trump’s claim, saying it maintains classified Obama records in a government facility in the Washington, D.C., area.“As required by the [Presidential Records Act], former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration,” the agency said in a statement.Beschloss on NBC also detailed how presidents before Obama handled their records, referencing former President Eisenhower’s documents being kept on a military base as one example.“This is not something that we have seen before,” Beschloss said. “Don’t think this is normal procedure.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="728ups, post: 5388701, member: 33372"] Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss said Trumps claim of Obama having 33 million documents was wrong “[URL='https://thehill.com/people/barack-obama/']Barack Obama [/URL]has tens of millions of documents, and they are in a National Archives installation, Hoffman Estates, Ill., under armed guard with heavy surveillance, using the procedures that are supposed to be used for a former president,” he added. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has also debunked Trump’s claim, saying it maintains classified Obama records in a government facility in the Washington, D.C., area. “As required by the [Presidential Records Act], former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration,” the agency said in a statement. Beschloss on NBC also detailed how presidents before Obama handled their records, referencing former President Eisenhower’s documents being kept on a military base as one example. “This is not something that we have seen before,” Beschloss said. “Don’t think this is normal procedure.” [/QUOTE]

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