Former President Donald Trump and his allies are claiming a federal law enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal and a decade-old case involving former President Bill Clinton gave him the right to take any documents from the White House after losing his bid for re-election. But legal experts say the claims are without merit. They say the Presidential Records Act passed in 1978 clearly distinguishes between “presidential records” and “personal records.” The experts also argue the 2012 case involving Clinton and audio tapes made with a historian isn’t a fair comparison to Trump’s current legal predicament.
