Considering the news of day, Donald Trump probably has bigger worries, but the former president flunked a fact check over allegations that Joe Biden mishandled classified documents, CNN reports.
Trump during last month’s CNN town hall argued that he shouldn’t be prosecuted over his handling of classified documents because Biden took “1,850 boxes” of documents to the University of Delaware.
Trump falsely insinuates that Biden acted improperly, which Daniel Dale writes for CNN is inaccurate, noting the documents he brought the university were from his career in the Senate, and were not classified.
Trump has repeated the claim on social media and in other speeches.
Daniel Dale writes for CNN that “…Trump’s vague insinuations that there is something improper about the existence of the Biden collection at the University of Delaware are baseless. The collection of donated documents is from Biden’s 36-year tenure as a US senator for Delaware. Unlike presidents, who are subject to the Presidential Records Act, senators own their offices’ documents and can do whatever they want with them – donate them to colleges, keep them at their homes, give them to journalists, even throw them in the trash.”
Ohio State University law professor Margaret Kwoka, an expert on information law, confirmed the law governing Senate records in an email to CNN on Friday.
“No statute governs their retention or disposition and there is no public right of access to congressional records, under FOIA or any other statute,” Kwoka said.
Trump has kept fact checkers busy since he announced his candidacy.
He made 30,573 false or misleading statements in the four years he served as president, The Washington Post reports.
