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The Justice Department on Friday assured the Trump administration that its hard drives wouldn t become President-elect Joe Biden s property on Inauguration Day.
Records and hard drives left behind in the White House will be controlled by the US archivist, not the incoming president, the new opinion issued to President Donald Trump s deputy counsel said.
The document issued during the waning days of a tumultuous presidential transition is troubling to some legal experts who see it as an attempt to further hamstring Biden s access to important information about the last administration.
Give Yourself a Break Today? Donald Trump and the Self‐Pardon SHARE
At least since June 2018, when President Trump tweeted about his “absolute right to PARDON myself,” it’s been a live possibility that our 45th president will do what no president even desperate, drunk Richard Nixon in his final days was crazy enough to do. And as the final hours of the Trump presidency tick by, we’re coming down to the wire.
Word is that Trump is set to issue anywhere from 60 to 100 clemency actions today, to a group that includes “white collar criminals, high‐profile rappers and others but as of now is not expected to include Trump himself.”