Several members of the administration of former US President Donald Trump have yet to return documents legally owned by the state, the National Archives said in a letter released by the United States. average North Americans.
“While there is no easy way to establish absolute traceability, we know we don’t have everything we should have,” Acting Chief Archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote in a letter to Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, who heads a parliament commission of inquiry.
The letter, dated Friday, does not reveal the names of the members of the White House involved in this casebut explains that some of them used accounts from e-mail for official business, without forwarding such communications to the National Archives, as required by United States federal law.
Wall says the National Archives – which is responsible for preserving official government documents – “will consult with the Justice Department to review possible legal action” to recover documents “illegally deleted”.
The archivist’s letter was sent in response to a request from Maloney about the latest developments in the lawsuit accusing Trump of taking confidential documents with him when he leaves the White House in 2021.
A 1978 law requires all US presidents to direct everything emailsletters and other working documents for the National Archives.
In January, Donald Trump handed over 15 boxes to the National Archives, but after an initial assessment, federal authorities concluded that the former president must have had other documents in his possession at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
In June, FBI agents first visited this residence, reinforcing the idea that not all documents had been seized.
On Aug. 8, officers conducted another search of Mar-a-Lago’s home, based on a “confidential document retention” warrant and suspected “impediment to a federal investigation,” confiscating about 30 more boxes. . Trump says he is being politically prosecuted and guarantees that the thousands of documents seized are personal or have already been released by him.
Source: DN
