So which one was he supposed to go by? That's the problem!! The part that says the documents are to "remain in the exclusive legal custody of the President" or "automatically t***sferred to the Archivist"? Which takes priority over the other?

I would do what he did....take exclusive legal custody of the records of my administration because it says that any request or order for access to such records must be made to the President, not NARA. That's pretty clear.

"So Biden was told to deliver on the federal aid but elected to unilaterally demand that Shokin be fired.

When the firing occurred, Shokin’s office was investigating Burisma Holdings, an energy firm that paid H****r B***n a huge amount of money.

The State Department had identified it as a corrupt company engaged in bribery.

Recent testimony from Devon Archer, a business associate of H****r B***n, revealed that Burisma executives made the removal of Shokin a top priority and raised it with H****r.

He described how the need to neutralize Shokin was raised with H****r and how “a call to Washington” was made in response.

President Biden has insisted, “I did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. And that’s what we should be focusing on.”"

Yep!

YOU read it!!!

The P**********l Records Act of 1978 ""- Establishes in law that any incumbent P**********l records (whether textual or electronic) held on courtesy storage by the Archivist remain in the exclusive legal custody of the President and that any request or order for access to such records must be made to the President, not NARA."

It also says this:

"Establishes a process by which the President may restrict and the public may obtain access to these records after the President leaves office; specifically, the PRA allows for public access to P**********l records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) beginning five years after the end of the Administration, but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years."

https://www.archives.gov/p**********l-libraries/laws/1978-act.html

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https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/joe-bidens-ukraine-defense-falls-apart/

Biden has always had a certain penchant for bragging, whether it’s claiming a dead man told him he reached a million miles on Amtrak, being a cross-country trucker or fighting off some “bad dude” named Corn Pop.

But one of those bravado moments may have revealed more than vanity.

Ironically, it’s the one controversial story that appears entirely true.

In a 2018 interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden bragged that he unilaterally withheld a billion dollars in US aid from the Ukrainians to force them to fire Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin.

The Ukrainians balked, but Biden gave them an ultimatum: “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b***h. He got fired.”

The premise of the story is that Biden took this extraordinary stand because there was little hope for the anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine if Shokin remained prosecutor.

That is now questionable.

The Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizes the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee that was handling the anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine: “Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee.”

One senior official even complimented Shokin on his progress in fighting corruption.

So Biden was told to deliver on the federal aid but elected to unilaterally demand that Shokin be fired.

When the firing occurred, Shokin’s office was investigating Burisma Holdings, an energy firm that paid H****r B***n a huge amount of money.

The State Department had identified it as a corrupt company engaged in bribery.

Recent testimony from Devon Archer, a business associate of H****r B***n, revealed that Burisma executives made the removal of Shokin a top priority and raised it with H****r.

He described how the need to neutralize Shokin was raised with H****r and how “a call to Washington” was made in response.

President Biden has insisted, “I did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. And that’s what we should be focusing on.”

Indeed, that will now be the focus, including the close correlation of the money and demands going to H****r and the actions of his father.

There is evidence the State Department was alarmed by H****r’s work and its impact on anti-corruption efforts.

While Joe was portraying his work as fighting corruption, some officials were warning that the Bidens could be part of the problem, not the solution, in Ukraine.

Leading diplomat George Kent wrote then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, “The real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son H****r’s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine [because] Ukrainians heard one message from us and then saw another set of behavior with the family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules.”

As part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump, Democrats largely dismissed earlier accounts of these misgivings and portrayed Shokin as a thoroughly corrupt prosecutor perpetuating corruption.

Biden’s Ukrainian Corn Pop story was celebrated as a gutsy moment of leadership.

During the impeachment, Kent said Biden’s demand was consistent with US policy.

Yet we now know the State Department had found progress was being made on corruption and Shokin was praised in private correspondence.

The demand for the replacement of the equivalent of the attorney general in another country is an extraordinary move.

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We give massive amounts of money to countries with rampant corruption and authoritarian records.

But Biden decided Shokin had to go and used public money to make that happen.

The memo also highlights the flaws in the Trump impeachment.

When I testified before the House Judiciary Committee at the only impeachment hearing, I told the committee it should not depart from history and proceed to an impeachment without fact witnesses on the grounds for impeachment.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and others refused.

It now seems there was material evidence that would have been used at the impeachment trial.

Trump was alleging there was a conflict of interest with the Bidens, and the evidence could have challenged Biden’s account and established his son’s interest in the Shokin firing.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/ex-h****r-biden-partner-devon-archer-arrives-for-house-deposition/

Archer said during a four-hour House Oversight Committee interview that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings paid H****r up to $1 million per year to serve on its board because of his family’s “brand.”

Archer met with then-Vice President Joe Biden in April 2014, within days of joining Burisma’s board alongside H****r, and told lawmakers that “Burisma would have gone out of business if ‘the brand’ had not been attached to it,” according to a readout from panel Republicans.

According to Archer, Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky — who allegedly told an FBI informant in 2016 he was “coerced” to pay $10 million in bribes to H****r and Joe Biden — put intense pressure on H****r in late 2015 to enlist US support for ousting Ukrainian prosecutor-general Viktor Shokin, who had investigated Burisma, the Republican readout said.

At one point, H****r B***n, Zlochevsky and Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi stepped away and “called DC” about the issue, Archer said.

“We wish he could have given us more detailed answers on some of our questions. But what he did provide is massive,” she added. “He provided, as a former business partner of H****r B***n, that Joe Biden lied to the American people so many times. Joe Biden is on record over and over — on video and interviews — saying, ‘I don’t know anything about my son’s business dealings. I’ve never talked to H****r about his business.'”

Stop with the niceties. You don't mean them....they contradict your whole attitude here.....they are shallow.

Nothing I have posted are "my suppositions"...they are the t***h. Something you seem to want to avoid.

The T***H is that before their "surprise" raid in August, when Trump was not home the FBI had already been to Trump's home when he was there in June (June 3). He met with them and they talked about the boxes! Trump did what they asked him to. When they raided his home in August and was not there, Trump could not have offered the boxes or any of the documents to them because he wasn't there....and they KNEW it! So they made it look like a raid. It was sneaky, and a lot of Americans bought the lie. If they didn't look at the documents during the June visit, it is NOT Trump's fault! You don't like this, but it is what happened.

Deal with it.

Don't tell me that I don't know you. The entire conscientious world now knows you and they're rejecting your ideology. Your facts are direct from the spoon fed DNC State Controlled Marxist Media. You're the walking dead, victim of a very efficient clandestine spin machine. You morons didn't v**e against Trump because of his great policies and agenda. No, you v**ed against Trump because you were brainwashed to h**e him. Only the lazy, simple-minded Marxist influenced simpletons were this susceptible to brainwashing. Very little effort was needed to capture you. You didn't v**e for Biden because you liked him, you v**ed against Trump because you were taught to h**e him. You still h**e him over the worst POS to ever occupy the Oval Office. A man so worthless that the British Parliment v**ed to hold him in contempt.

What you call my "far right" info sources or people now identified as far right by the Left were once basic everyday Traditional Americans until the worthless, evil cultural Marxist finally captured the Democrat Party and spawned people like you. You're d********g.

You gave no response to those C*******t Goals I gave you. Perhaps you saw yourself smack in the middle of them?

The FBI knew exactly where the documents were in Trump's house.

I know exactly where the documents were! They were in a locked room in Trump's home. I know this because three FBI agents went to Mar-a-Lago on June 3, 2022 - two months earlier than the f**e raid they conducted and saw the boxes there! They didn't look into the boxes at the time, but they did tell Trump to keep the boxes locked in a single room, which he complied with! He also told them during the June 3 visit that they could take the boxes or wh**ever they wanted from them, but that the National Archives wanted some of them for their own purposes. None of you conspiracy people ever say anything about this! Look it up! There are timelines of these visits all over the net.

The problem I have with the FBI going to his home in August was that they went there at a time they KNEW he was not home. Trump couldn't tell them to go ahead and take the boxes or wh**ever they wanted from him because he was NOT THERE! And this is obvious because when they showed up at Mar-a-Lago, they told the staff to turn off all the cameras! It's a good thing Eric Trump was there that day because he was able to at least keep the cameras going. Those videos have never been shown to anyone. I really want to see them! All of them! Especially the ones of them going through Melania's lingerie drawers!

Trump also said he never told the FBI agents they couldn't have any of the documents - they just didn't take them in June - probably because they wanted the raid they were planning later on to look "real". There is even some suspicion that documents were planted in Trump's home by the FBI when they went there in either the June visit or the August raid.