presidential records and personal records. You can read it for yourself, but you likely won’t. (You’ll love the name of the website by the way.)

Here’s the takeaway…

“The PRA defines presidential records as materials “created or received by the President, the President’s immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise or assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.” The PRA excludes from this definition official agency records, which are covered by the Federal Records Act.

The PRA also excludes personal records, which it defines as materials “of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.”

Clearly national defense information, which Trump is charged with illegally possessing, falls under the description of presidential records, which by law belong to NARA. Claiming otherwise is either ignorant or dishonest. Furthermore, the judge in the socks case characterized the tapes as a type of journal or diary (they were made over several years), which could be considered personal records.

It’s a mistake to assume I’m uninformed on an issue if I choose to challenge you on it.