The National Archives said they will take action in order to retrieve missing documents that Trump has still not returned.
In a letter sent on Friday to chair of the House Oversight Committee, the National Archives and Records Administration noted that Trump administration officials have not yet submitted all of the records that are due to be returned under the conditions of the Presidential Records Act.will take action in order to retrieve the missing documents
, including consulting with the Department of Justice “on whether ‘to initiate an action for the recovery of records unlawfully removed,’ as established under the Federal Records Act.” “While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should,”Steidel Wall also noted that NARA has been unable to obtain records from “non-official electronic messaging accounts,” as members of the former administration did not copy or forward messages to their official electronic messaging accounts, as required by law.
The letter from NARA to Congress came weeks after Rep. Carolyn Maloney , the chair of the House Oversight Committee,stating that lawmakers were “concerned that, given this pattern of conduct, [former President Donald] Trump may continue to retain presidential records at non-secure locations” — perhaps even at other Trump properties — and that these documents could include “classified material that could endanger our nation’s security and other important records documenting Mr.
After reviewing the records they retrieved, NARA noted that some were marked as classified, and contacted the DOJ to further investigate. The department then subpoenaed Trump, demanding that he return more documents in June and requiring his legal counsel to affirm there were no more documents with classified markings in his possession.
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