President Donald Trump recently offered some inaccurate remarks to reporters about the congressional investigations into his campaign and his business practices.

Trump’s comments came after House Democrats released a list of 81 people who will be receiving document requests related to ongoing congressional investigations.

"Instead of doing infrastructure, instead of doing health care, instead of doing so many things that they should be doing, they want to play games," Trump said. "President Obama, from what they tell me, was under a similar kind of a thing — didn’t give one letter. They didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were made; they didn’t give a letter."

Trump’s point that the Obama administration stonewalled all congressional demands for information is wrong.

The Obama administration did participate in significant congressional oversight efforts. Among them:

• Loans to the failed solar company Solyndra, which prompted an investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee that looked into 300,000 documents.

• Alleged political bias at the Internal Revenue Service, investigated by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the Senate Finance Committee and a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee. The investigation examined 1.3 million documents.

• The Benghazi consulate terrorist attack in 2012, investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, several House panels led by the House Intelligence Committee, and a specially created House Benghazi committee.

• The "gun-walking" program known as Fast & Furious, which was investigated jointly by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

It’s worth noting that the Obama administration didn’t hand over documents willy-nilly. On occasion, the administration opposed turning over documents. This happened in the investigations over Solyndra, Fast & Furious, and Benghazi. But noncooperation was generally struck down in the courts, and the administration eventually handed over the documents.

"Some documents were withheld and the administration cited specific reasons for withholding those documents," said Eric Schickler, a University of California-Berkeley political scientist who co-authored the book "Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power." "I cannot say if those reasons were ‘good’ or not, but they were not withheld in a blanket or wholesale manner."

Douglas Kriner, Schickler’s co-author and a government professor at Cornell University, said the push-pull dynamic over documents between the executive and legislative branches is as old as the republic, dating to investigations of a military disaster in the Ohio frontier under President George Washington.

"So the Obama administration precedents are consistent with past practice," Kriner said. "Any effort to cite them to justify mass-scale noncompliance with recent requests for documentation from the White House is disingenuous."

That said, the comparison between the Obama and Trump administrations is not entirely apples-to-apples.

We’re not aware of any congressional investigations into Obama’s personal finances, as is happening to Trump. (Obama’s business and real estate holdings were trivial compared with Trump’s.) The four investigations outlined above tended to focus on activities of executive branch agencies rather than the White House itself.

"I do not know of any major investigations of the Obama White House itself," said Charles Tiefer, a University of Baltimore law professor who previously served as solicitor and deputy general counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Our ruling:

Trump said that when Congress sought documents from Obama, the White House "didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were made. They didn’t give a letter."

That’s not what happened. Trump's claim is ridiculous— so we rate it Pants on Fire!