Archives threatened to go to Congress and Justice Department to get Trump to turn over records

[Nevilledog]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/11/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents-archives/index.html

(CNN)Worried that a trove of White House records that had been brought to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate contained classified material, a top official in the former President's orbit warned his aides last fall: Do not touch those boxes.

The senior official in Trump's inner circle did not want to risk exposing sensitive materials to aides who may have lacked the appropriate security clearances, according to a person familiar with the matter. The boxes, which were being stored at the time in Trump's personal suite at his Florida club, had landed on the National Archives and Records Administration's radar after officials there noticed that several items were missing from their catalog of Trump White House records.

In May 2021, the realization that important items from Trump's time in office -- including some of his correspondence with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and infamous Sharpie-altered map of Hurricane Dorian -- were not transferred to the Archives at the end of his presidency prompted NARA officials to contact Trump's team.

Longtime Archives lawyer Gary Stern first reached out to a person from the White House counsel's office who had been designated as the President Records Act point of contact about the record-keeping issue, hoping to locate the missing items and initiate their swift transfer back to NARA, said multiple sources familiar with the matter. The person had served as one of Trump's impeachment defense attorneys months earlier and, as deputy counsel, was among the White House officials typically involved in ensuring records were properly preserved during the transfer of power and Trump's departure from office.

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[Cha]

1. KR TY

[malaise]

8. Good effin grief!

Lock up this criminal - efuckingnough!

[sakabatou]

2. Archives should just do it now.

Bring down the hammer.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. For this thread

Link to tweet

[Nevilledog]

6. ...

Link to tweet

[Irish_Dem]

5. What would happen to me if I stole classified, top secret material?

And had it stored in my home?

(PS I am not a wealthy/ powerful/ white/ male.)

[Nevilledog]

7. You'd be arrested immediately and imprisoned.

[tanyev]

9. Narcissists like to keep trophies.

I’ve read.

[demigoddess]

10. threatened?!?!? why didn't they just do it?? Or go to Mara largo and claim them???

[DENVERPOPS]

11. no kidding...

you can believe any remaining documents are all long gone after all the publicity.......

[Rebl2]

12. Yep!

Since it took them eight months to get these documents, they could have possibly been destroying other documents theses last eight months.

[wnylib]

15. I have no doubt that they were doing just that.

[Justice matters.]

18. Or make photocopies to sell out later to the highest bidders (Saudis?)

[Rebl2]

13. Exactly

[BigmanPigman]

14. He is a mob boss

He needs to be treated as such and not as an ex POTUS.

[wnylib]

16. Bingo!

[Rebl2]

17. So very true!

[Justice matters.]

19. Yes.

Timidity never saved anyone.