Panel: Archives still not certain it has all Trump records
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives is still not certain that it has custody of all Donald Trump’s presidential records even after the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago club, a congressional committee said in a letter Tuesday.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform revealed that staff at the Archives on an Aug. 24 call could not provide assurances that they have all of Trump’s presidential records. The committee in the letter asked the Archives to conduct an assessment of whether any Trump records remain unaccounted for and potentially in his possession.
“In light of revelations that Mr. Trump’s representatives misled investigators about his continued possession of government property and that material found at his club included dozens of ‘empty folders’ for classified material, I am deeply concerned that sensitive presidential records may remain out of the control and custody of the U.S. Government,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the chairwoman of the Oversight Committee, wrote in the letter.
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Walleye
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MontanaMama
(24,722 posts)they would be in prison. Get this show on the road.
gab13by13
(32,335 posts)DOJ should have taken the case early on instead of leaving it up to the Archives.
I guarantee this, he has all of the documents that could incriminate him in an indictment. Those documents are next to Ivana ashes.
My local public library keeps better records.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)Wormtongues and they are the one's who have been hosing up all the investigations. It's like these enablers were not informing Garland about any investigation and what has been found. It doesn't help that Barr has been trying to show himself as the "voice of reason" and then that book has been released by SDNY AG tells the real truth about Barr. It's the hires from TFG takeover of our gov't that has tried to stop any investigation cold...(who knew that Sessions would be a small voice of reason in the age of treason)
Mister Ed
(6,927 posts)They twice referred to the documents in question as "Donald Trump's presidential records."
The documents are not "Donald Trump's presidential records."
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)But the headline clearly suggests NARA themselves are questioning it. These are not equivalent concepts.
'Congress questioning NARA whether all docs Trump stole have been recovered' would be a lot more accurate.
gab13by13
(32,335 posts)Meadows was Trump's enabler, he knows just about everything that went on.
Remember when the J6 committee subpoenaed Meadows and he turned over a lot of juicy documents, then he went silent, right after Trump gave him a million dollars.
Emile
(42,293 posts)at Mar-a-Lago they haven't searched his other properties.
Shipwack
(3,065 posts)I suppose it's possible that his other properties have already been searched, and because they were trying to be discreet very few know. After all, the only reason we know about the Mara Lago search is because Trump threw a hissy fit about it...
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)After the amount of time that has gone by, our legal system should recognize that he might have spread them around, or moved them. One would think that finding documents in one location indicates he's likely to have them elsewhere, too, but maybe I'm thinking too rationally.
Jarqui
(10,909 posts)But you would think that the nation's vital secrets would be kept track of.
If someone wanted to view the docs in a remote SCIF, they would get signed out.
And then signed back in when they were returned for example.
And you would think that back up copies/scans would be kept in case "the plane went down" or whatever.
I have a feeling DoJ knows a lot more than they're letting on.
Trump has been playing with them for some time.
Trump can fool the oppressed, MAGAts, dumb politicians, etc.
But these folks in Counterintelligence - they're not stupid people.
Trump is going to get burned.
MiniMe
(21,883 posts)How did those confidential records that are so secret, how did those records get out of the white house?
Hestia
(3,818 posts)they were handcuffed to a military member in a metal box, she read and signed if need be, and returned to military member and relocked in the box and taken to WH.
She kept asking (on the clip from The View) how did he get his hands on these papers & who gave him the docs and watched in pack them up and move to his golf course?
That may be the $64,000 Question...further sedition there...
Ford_Prefect
(8,613 posts)files and data stored in ALL of the family owned domiciles. That's the Trump M.O.
calimary
(90,039 posts)in its efforts to get to the bottom of all the trump sneakiness. Are they STILL assuming he's essentially a misunderstood semi-good guy?
W. T. F.???
WHY are they still treating him with kid gloves and giving him the benefit of the doubt, EVEN NOW? After all we've learned so far (and that's still probably not even the half of it)?
HAVEN'T the DOJ and others in law enforcement seen enough by now to waive the "innocent til proven guilty" response? BY NOW??? With THIS guy? Are they so eager and willing to forgive and forget?
WHY is THIS asshole STILL being given the benefit of the doubt? It's been a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNG time since he proved he doesn't deserve it.
gab13by13
(32,335 posts)it's not about evidence, (ducks) it's about whether to indict a former president, and members of his cabinet.
It's sad because we will have to watch Steve Kornacki until after the election. Merrick Garland could go on national TV and declare his investigation into the stolen top secret documents, because of threats to our national security, will not pause because of the election. I can dream.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)That's what the DoJ *should* be considering.
calimary
(90,039 posts)Okay, I'm glad he still has a job, but ENOUGH with the log-sawing arm gestures - that hand jabbing back and forth in front of the graphic he's talking about in detail but that NOBODY CAN SEE! Because he's jabbing that arm back and forth, ostensibly pointing to whatever graphic he's talking about - THAT YOU CAN'T FREAKIN' SEE!!!
He should have to wear something like that horrid dress Meghan Markle wore - white with a very long collar or over-layer or whatever it was called - that went from her neckline WAY down to elbow level, all the way around. Like the top of her was in some sort of cast - she couldn't move her arms around, or reach up, or anything. It was like a binding of sorts. Ugly and not flexible and probably ghastly-hard to wear. You could barely swing your arms front-to-back in that damn thing. Might as well have been wrapped up like a mummy or something. Absolutely dreadful.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)Ford_Prefect
(8,613 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(135,732 posts)WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel on Tuesday sought an urgent review by the U.S. National Archives after agency staff members acknowledged that they did not know if all presidential records from Donald Trump's administration had been turned over.
House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney also asked the Archives, the federal agency charged with preserving government records, to seek a written certification from the Republican former president that he has handed over all presidential records and classified materials.
Maloney, a Democrat, also wants him to confirm he has not made copies or transferred them anywhere other than to that agency or the Justice Department.
Trump is facing a criminal investigation by the Justice Department for retaining government records - some marked as highly classified, including "top secret" - at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving office in January 2021.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/u-s-lawmakers-ask-national-archives-for-accounting-of-trump-records/ar-AA11M1UX
gab13by13
(32,335 posts)why don't the House and Senate intelligence committees subpoena Trump and ask him why he stole top secret documents?
SunSeeker
(58,283 posts)Ligyron
(8,006 posts)And our Intel agencies absolutely know they don't.
I just wonder if some type of sting op hasn't already been run on that traitor. He may have had one of the kids do the dirty work because he tends to delegate actionable deeds, you know... like a mob boss.
no_hypocrisy
(54,908 posts)Check in Hannity's underwear drawer, etc.
nightthinker
(268 posts)"An empty "classified" folder is on display at the 45-themed bar in Trump Tower, per MSNBC."