Since the FBI’s search of his Florida home and club this week for classified documents, Trump has claimed in social media posts that Obama “kept 33 million pages of documents, many of them classified” and that they were “moved to Chicago by President Obama. “ In its statement, NARA said it gained “exclusive legal and physical custody” of Obama’s records when he left office in 2017. It said about 30 million pages of unclassified records were moved to a NARA facility in the Chicago area and continue to be maintained “exclusively by NARA.” Classified records from Obama are kept at a NARA facility in Washington, the statement said. “As required by [Presidential Records Act]former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores his administration’s presidential records,” the statement said. Despite the official statement, Trump continued to peddle his false claims in light of a Washington Post report that classified documents related to nuclear weapons were among the items sought by FBI agents in a search of Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to with people familiar with the research. Within minutes of the statement from the Archives, Trump again advanced his evidence-free claim in response to the latest reports, saying: “What are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that the President Did Obama go to Chicago?’
