Trump’s DOJ tells Trump he can hold onto government docs when he leaves office, contrary to Watergate-era law

“The memo mischaracterizes the Presidential Records Act as regulating the President’s constitutional functions, and that’s really what its analysis rests on,” said Liz Hempowicz, the deputy executive director of the left-leaning government transparency group American Oversight. “In fact, the Presidential Records Act governs the ownership and preservation of federal property records, which is an area that is squarely within Congress’s authority.”