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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArchives asked for records after Trump lawyer agreed they should be returned, email says
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About two dozen boxes of presidential records stored in then-president Donald Trumps White House residence were not returned to the National Archives and Records Administration in the final days of his term even after Archives officials were told by a Trump lawyer that the documents should be returned, according to an email from the top lawyer at the record-keeping agency.
It is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the Residence of the White House over the course of President Trumps last year in office and have not been transferred to NARA, despite a determination by Pat Cipollone in the final days of the administration that they need to be, wrote Gary Stern, the agencys chief counsel, in an email to Trump lawyers in May 2021, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post.
Cipollone was the former White House counsel designated by Trump as one of his representatives to the Archives. A spokeswoman for Cipollone declined to comment Wednesday.
The previously unreported email sent about 100 days after the former president left office with the subject line Need for Assistance re Presidential Records shows just how early Archives officials realized that many documents were missing from the Trump White House. It also illustrates the myriad efforts Archives officials made to have the documents returned over an 18-month period, culminating with an FBI raid earlier this month at Trumps Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
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Archives asked for records after Trump lawyer agreed they should be returned, email says (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2022
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sakabatou
(42,152 posts)1. It also shows a blatant disregard of rules, which is obvious.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)2. He was cooperating damn it.
How dare they raid his home.
magicarpet
(14,154 posts)3. The Orange Fuhrer is the Dictator for life,...
.... those documents are the royal records and belong at the castle down at Mar a Lago.
Now back off,... or you will be tossed in to the king's dungeons then whipped and tortured.