{"id":1950477,"date":"2023-06-18T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T20:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-calls-trumps-characterization-of-presidential-records-act-absurd\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T20:19:56","slug":"bill-barr-calls-trumps-characterization-of-presidential-records-act-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-calls-trumps-characterization-of-presidential-records-act-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Barr deems Trump&#8217;s view on Presidential Records Act &#8216;ridiculous&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-barr-calls-trumps-characterization-of-presidential-records-act-absurd%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1950477&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Attorney General William Barr Calls Out Trump&#8217;s Absurd Claims<\/h2>\n<p>Former Attorney General William Barr is speaking out against former President Donald Trump&#8217;s assertion that he has the right to maintain documents under the Presidential Records Act. In an interview on CBS News&#8217;s Face the Nation, Barr disputed Trump&#8217;s claims and called them &#8220;absurd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The legal theory by which he gets to take battle plans and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-slapped-unprecedented-gag-order-on-media-execs\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Slapped \u2018Unprecedented\u2019 Gag Order On Media Execs\">sensitive national security information<\/a> as his &#8216;personal papers&#8217; is absurd,&#8221; said Barr.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Barr explained that the purpose of the Presidential Records Act is to prevent presidents from removing documents from the White House. The act was passed after Watergate and restricts what a president can take. It specifically states that the documents must be purely private and unrelated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-calls-trumps-characterization-of-presidential-records-act-absurd\/\" title=\"Barr deems Trump's view on Presidential Records Act 'ridiculous'.\">government policy deliberations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, these documents are not purely private. It\u2019s obvious. And they\u2019re not even now arguing that it\u2019s purely private. What they&#8217;re saying is the president has sweeping discretion to say they are, even though they don\u2019t squarely fall within the definition. It\u2019s an absurd argument,&#8221; Barr continued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked if he believed Trump lied to the Justice Department about the documents, Barr stated that he did believe Trump lied. He also emphasized that while Trump has faced unfair scrutiny in the past, this indictment is not one of those cases.<\/p>\n<p>The former president is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ark-man-confesses-to-breaching-capitol\/\" title=\"Ark. man confesses to breaching Capitol\">facing multiple charges<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-behar-blames-gerald-ford-for-a-possible-trump-pardon\/\" title=\"Joy Behar accuses Gerald Ford of being responsible for a potential Trump pardon.\">including willful retention<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-rips-trump-for-doing-the-same-thing-the-obama-administration-did\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Rips Trump For Doing The Same Thing The Obama Administration Did\">national defense information<\/a>, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and concealing documents in a federal investigation. He recently pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General William Barr has criticized former President Donald Trump&#8217;s assertion that he had the right to retain documents under the Presidential Records Act as &#8220;absurd.&#8221; Barr refuted Trump&#8217;s claims during an interview on CBS News&#8217;s Face the Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1950478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[10867,17325,3849,3918,5291,3794,5963],"class_list":["post-1950477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-barr","tag-deems","tag-presidential","tag-records","tag-ridiculous","tag-trumps","tag-view"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}