Obama didn’t keep millions of classified White House documents

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CLAIM: Former President Barack Obama took 30 million documents, many of them classified, to Chicago upon leaving the White House. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Obama administration records are exclusively held and maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration, the federal agency confirmed on Friday. Millions of unclassified documents were transferred after Obama left office to a NARA facility in Chicago, but neither Obama’s personal foundation nor the facility set to house his presidential memorabilia have control over those papers. These records were given to NARA in 2017, upon the end of Obama’s term, and they remain in NARA’s sole custody, in accordance with federal law. Some 30 million documents were moved to a NARA-operated facility in the Chicago area, as the agency explained in a statement Friday, but none were classified. The administration’s classified documents are stored in a separate NARA facility in the Washington, D.C., area. (So before you knuckleheads bring up Obama and his administrations records and their disposition, let's put that to bed. Obama played by the rules, something Trump could learn from.)