National Archives: Trump White House docs STILL missing nearly two months after FBI Mar-a-Lago raid
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National Archives Says STILL Missing Trump White House Documents Nearly Two Months After FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago — Warns DOJ to Take Further Action
- The National Archives responded to a request for information from the House Oversight Committee, chaired by Chair Carolyn Maloney
- Archivist Debra Steidel Wall won’t say whether Donald Trump himself was still in possession of presidential documents
- “It is outrageous that this data is no longer mentioned twenty months later” [Trump] left the office,” Representative Maloney said in an emailed statement to DailyMail.com
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The National Archives said Friday that some of Donald Trump’s White House data is still not in its possession
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is still missing the Trump administration it sought after the former president’s term ends, the agency said in a letter on Friday.
“The National Archives has confirmed to the Oversight Committee that they still have not received all of the presidential data from the Trump White House,” said Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall.
Wall said the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be consulted on whether or not to initiate an action to recover unlawfully deleted data by White House officials.
She suggested that the Trump administration violated the Presidential Records Act by “using electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded to their official electronic messaging accounts.”
It comes nearly two months after the FBI’s unannounced search for Trump’s mansion in Mar-a-Lago sparked a storm of outrage from the right, with the vast majority of Republicans labeling it a political move.
Wall declined to say whether Trump himself was still illegally holding onto records, citing the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents.
The Friday letter, which DailyMail.com received on Sunday morning, was in response to a request from House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY).
“The National Archives has confirmed to the Oversight Committee that they still have not received all the presidential data from the Trump White House. Presidential data belongs to the American people, and it is outrageous that 20 months after former President Trump left office, this data is not disclosed,” Maloney told DailyMail.com in an emailed statement.
The update was in response to a letter from House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Carolyn Maloney
“Former President Trump and his senior staff have shown total disregard for the rule of law and our national security by failing to return presidential records as required by law.”
She pledged “to continue to do everything in my power to ensure that all Trump White House presidential data is returned to the administration and to ensure that these abuses never happen again.”
Regarding the missing communications from Trump aides, Wall’s letter referred to the DOJ’s attempt to recover official messages sent via a “personal email account” by former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.
Navarro is currently on trial for contempt of Congress’ charges over his refusal to comply with a Jan. 6 subpoena of the House select committee.
Wall responded to Maloney’s investigation into whether Trump was in possession of any documents referring to the DOJ.
“With regard to the second issue of whether former President Trump has turned in all presidential records, we respectfully refer you to the Justice Department in light of the ongoing investigation,” the letter said.
The data is said to be still missing nearly two months after the FBI’s unannounced search for Mar-a-Lago.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Trump’s spokesperson for comment.
In a lawsuit last month, DOJ officials said the FBI recovered about four dozen empty folders with classification marks when agents raided Trump’s Florida resort.
Forty-three of those were in Trump’s personal office, the filing said.
An earlier public release suggested that the FBI recovered 11 sets of top-secret or classified documents during the August 8 raid.
Trump himself has publicly lashed out against the National Archives and DOJ investigations multiple times, while denying any allegation.
He told Fox News in a recent interview that he has not removed classified documents because he can declassify anything “even by thinking about it.”
The ex-president has also lashed out at the agencies himself, declaring at a recent meeting in Pennsylvania: “The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters, controlled by radical-left thugs, lawyers and the media, telling them what they are doing.” must do. ‘
The letter was obtained by DailyMail.com on Sunday morning