It's not that he wasn't allowed to have them. It's that he is not allowed to keep them. Big difference. Don't forget how much wrangling it took to get all those documents back. He knew they weren't his, and lied repeatedly while trying to hide them from their rightful owners - the American people. He wasn't hiding them for the library to be named after him. He was hiding them for himself. And he was not handling them at all properly.

Not only that, he was caught bragging about having invasion plans, complete with maps. How is that a personal record? Pair that up with the Chinese spy that was caught at Mar a Lago and even the simplest person should be able to see the issues at hand here.

By your reasoning, any president can take anything they want as their own, and it is theirs forevermore. The Whitehouse would have been stripped bare generations ago if that was the case.

What if Obama took home some top secret documents after he left office, left it lying around in a bathroom of his golf club with lax security where there's been reports of spies[1]?

Oh wait, this news story isn't true, it's been made up by the deep state (which Vox is a part of) to discredit the "greatest president of all time", right? Ah... it must be so easy to live in your reality!

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/4/18295810/ma...

The 'President' is a temporary elected office, during which there is plenty of necessary access to all manner of secure materials. When no longer in that elected position there is zero need for continued access to those materials.

Likewise, those secure materials have some very specific handling protocols for access. ALL of which were completely ignored by Trump.

The notion of the 'deep state' is a boogeyman used to scare weak minds.