Any President has the absolute statutory power to take personal copies — classified or non-classified — when he leaves office. An Obama judge confirmed that in 2012 when former President Clinton had 8 years of highly classified recordings of his presidency in his sock drawer.

Barr was the Attorney General. Twice. And the deputy AG. He ran the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). He knows the law. He has long promoted any president’s executive power. He’s playing willfully ignorant here. Because he has a big ego. And wants to sell his book.