Trump speech

Former President Donald Trump made a speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday night after he was arraigned in Manhattan on felony charges of falsifying ...

At a campaign rally in Texas in late March, he claimed – also [incorrectly](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/25/politics/trump-fact-check-waco-rally/index.html) – that the country had the highest inflation in “50 years.” [thoroughly debunked](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/politics/georgia-election-workers-american-democracy-trump/index.html); there is no sign that any such illegality occurred on a large scale. [9.1%](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/13/economy/cpi-inflation-june/index.html). Three days after the call, CNN [ ran a story](https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/politics/trump-call-legal-jeopardy/index.html) headlined “Trump’s call could put the President in jeopardy, legal experts say.” By then, it had been [clear for more than eight months ](https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966332808/georgia-district-attorney-is-investigating-trumps-call-to-overturn-election)that Willis was investigating Trump’s attempts to meddle with the 2020 election in the state. Nothing in the law says there should be a negotiation between a former president and NARA over a former president’s return of presidential documents – much less that there should have been a monthslong battle after NARA [first](https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/doj-investigation-trump-documents-timeline/index.html) contacted Trump’s team in 2021 to try to get some of the records that had not been handed over at the end of his presidency. Baron](https://ischool.umd.edu/directory/jason-r-baron/), former director of litigation at NARA, told CNN in an email last week (when we [fact-checked](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/politics/fact-check-trump-presidential-records-act-talk/index.html) a similar false claim by Trump): “The former President is simply wrong as a matter of law. That means no presidential records ever should have been transferred to Mar-a-Lago, and there was no further talking or negotiating to be had.” [Timothy Naftali](https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/timothy-naftali.html), a CNN presidential historian, New York University professor and former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, described Trump’s claim as “nonsense” and said the former president’s description of the Presidential Records Act is “a matter of fantasy,” concocted to allow Trump to “pretend that he’s a victim.” In reality, NARA was granted custody of the presidential records of former Presidents Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama and both George Bushes as soon as these presidents left office, as required by the Presidential Records Act, and it was NARA, not those presidents, that moved those documents to temporary archival facilities – facilities managed by NARA. Reports that indicate or imply that those Presidential records were in the possession of the former Presidents or their representatives, after they left office, or that the records were housed in substandard conditions, are false and misleading.” Soros did not make any donations to Bragg’s 2021 election campaign, and a Soros spokesperson, Michael Vachon, told CNN that the two men have never once communicated in any way; there is no evidence that Soros had any role in Bragg’s decision to prosecute Trump. [says](https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/13500/text) that, the moment a president leaves office, the National Archives and Records Administration gets custody and control of all presidential records from his administration.