Alan D. on “Get Trump”
How Barack Obama set the legal path for the FBI’s Trump raid
2009 executive order stripped prior presidents’ standing to maintain executive privilege.
An executive order that George W. Bush signed on Nov. 1, 2001 declared that an incumbent president couldn’t overrule a former president’s claims to executive privilege over documents from their tenure if the two could not come to an agreement.
But Barack Obama reversed that guidance nearly a decade later…