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From Gizmodo:

"The U.S. National Archives officially launched the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library's website on Wednesday, the new digital home of the worst presidency in modern U.S. history. But if you're excited to finally file a bunch of Freedom of Information Act requests about Trump, we have bad news. The vast majority of Trump's records won't be available until 2026.

"The White House and Congress are both explicitly exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, an exemption that hampers a lot of journalism here in the 21st century. But official presidential records do become available through FOIA starting five years after a president leaves office. That means some records from the Trump White House will become available in January of 2026. When that finally happens, you'll be sending your request to the National Archives, which runs every presidential records request by living presidents before redactions and releases are made.

"Nixon, Reagan, Clinton—they all have presidential libraries administered through the National Archives. Obama's records, by the way, are subject to FOIA starting January 2022, so mark your calendars. But everything that's currently available on the newly launched Trump presidency website has been released before to the public in some form or another, whether it's photos or archived websites."

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