Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner recently said that any novice prosecutor could win a conviction against Trump in court.
During the interview with Hannity, Trump said he had the"right" to take items from his time as president, and he referenced Nixon's experience as proof.
"I have the right to take stuff. Do you know that they ended up paying Richard Nixon, I think, $18 million for what he had? They did the Presidential Records Act. I have the right to take stuff. I have the right to look at stuff," Trump said. The Presidential Records Act actually prevents presidents from keeping U.S. documents as their personal property upon leaving the White House. Prior to the act, which was passed in 1978 and applied to Ronald Reagan and every subsequent president, presidents had the right to claim any of their presidential documents as their personal property upon leaving the White House.
However, every president since Reagan is under the Presidential Records Act, which deems presidential documents as public property that must be returned to the government upon the president leaving the White House. Because of the act, presidents would not be compensated for retaining the documents and then returning them to the government.
The grand jury investigating Trump's possession of classified documents has not issued an indictment as of Wednesday. Trump continues to deny any wrongdoing in the case.
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