WASHINGTON, DC — Some members of
Donald Trump’s White House have yet to turn over
presidential records that are government property, the US National Archives has
informed Congress.
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“While there is no
easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have
custody of everything we should,” the acting US archivist, Debra Steidel Wall,
said in a letter to Representative Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat who heads the
House Oversight Committee.
The letter — which
was dated Friday but made public by US media late Saturday — did not identify
the White House staffers.
But it said that
some staffers had used private electronic messaging accounts to conduct
official business, and not turned those messages over as required by law.
Wall said in her
letter that the National Archives — which is charged with preserving government
records — would consult with the
Justice Department about possible legal action
“for the recovery of records unlawfully removed.”
Wall’s letter, sent
in response to a request from Maloney for an update on the legal battle over
sensitive materials removed from the White House by Trump, did not say whether
the former president had yet turned over all such documents.
After repeated efforts by the federal government to secure
all documents removed by Trump — and after his lawyers insisted everything had
been returned — a team of FBI agents in August searched his Mar-a-Lago estate
in Florida and recovered more than 10,000 records.
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