Cannon shoots down Trump's presidential records act claim

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28. The Presidential Records Act

Is not what Trump thinks it is. The link below is the 2014 revised act and it is very specific regarding classified documents (hard copy and electronic) and it spells out that those documents are not to be viewed anywhere but in a secure facility with no means to copy the contents. That would just introduce a different set of charges over the mishandling of the classified documents. It would also leave in place the obstruction charges. The original 1978 act changes the ownership from private to public and sets disclosure rules except it doesn't specifically mention classified documents.

My understanding of the interaction of the various laws is that they all apply to some degree. When there is a conflict between laws then the more general law must give way to the more specific law. Yes, there is another law that helps sort out the variaus conflicts and they all apply to some extent. And none of them condones what Trump did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_and_Federal_Records_Act_Amendments_of_2014