From AOL: An AP news item popped up on my phone. Can't link it. Sorry.

[sprinkleeninow]

Trump didn't comment Tuesday, but attention surrounding the gap comes alongside a separate potential legal and political headache for the Republican ex-president — the recovery earlier this year of 15 boxes, including records containing classified information from Trump's White House tenure, from his Mar-a-Lago vacation home in Florida.

A look at how the law regards presidential records:

WHAT IS THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT?

The 1978 law requires the preservation of White House documents as property of the U.S. government.

The law was passed in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, when a collection of secret tapes that President Richard Nixon had considered destroying played a defining role. The tapes revealed that Nixon tried to cover up the bungled burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters. He chose to resign rather than face impeachment and removal from office.

HOW MIGHT THAT APPLY HERE?

In theory, the law would require the preservation of emails, text messages and phone records — no matter the device used for the communication, said presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky.

The problem is, there's no real mechanism to enforce the law, which by definition depends on the goodwill of presidents and their staff to police their own record keeping.

Attribution: Associated Press through AOL

[Claustrum]

1. Operative word- MIGHT.

I've seen too many might be, could be, should be articles in the past few years. Wake me up when they ARE applying those laws on TFG.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. Sez there's a LAW. Well--ENFORCE it, dammmit!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. You KNOW that TFG won't comply with these laws!

I did hear that those records have been recovered. I wouldn't be surprised if some were missing.

[sprinkleeninow]

5. This baloney sets one's teeth on edge. Continuously.

(Imma far behind with stuff. Will PM you as soon as.)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. (No worries! I got it.)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Punishing a president would be a deterrence for the future. . .nt

[sprinkleeninow]

6. This is what is dawning on me. That's the dilemma.

A ton of this sux majorly.