What WAS Said“President Obama, from what they tell me, was under a similar kind of a thing, didn’t give one letter. They didn’t give one letter of the request. They didn’t give a letter.”— President Trump, at the White House on TuesdayFalse. While Mr. Obama did invoke executive privilege in at least one instance, Mr. Trump is wrong that his predecessor did not turn over any documents at all. Mr. Trump may have been referring to Mr. Obama’s assertion of executive privilege over some 1,300 pages of documents related to the case.

Source: New York Times March 06, 2019 00:33 UTC