Steidel Wall added that the archives have been unable to obtain federal records related to “unofficial electronic information accounts that were not copied or forwarded to their official electronic information accounts.” She noted that by law, presidential advisers are required to forward such information to their official accounts.
“While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not oversee everything we should have,” Steidel Wall wrote, according to a letter provided to The Washington Post.
Steidel Wall cited a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department on behalf of the National Archives against former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for failing to turn over private emails involving official White House business during his tenure in the Trump administration.
Under the Presidential Records Act, the president’s immediate staff, the vice president, and anyone advising the president must keep records and telephone calls related to official business.
Despite a recent letter mentioning Trump officials, attention has been paid to former President Donald Trump and the documents he has kept since he left the White House since the Aug. 8 court approved the FBI’s search of the Mar-a-Lago club. increased. 8.
The FBI recovered more than 300 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago this year: 184 of 15 boxes sent to the National Archives and Records Administration in January, another 38 that were handed over to investigators by Trump’s lawyers in June, and 8 More than 100 additional documents discovered in the month. 8 Search.
In September, Maloney had asked the Archives to assess whether Trump had turned over all presidential records or classified materials. In her most recent letter, Steidelwall delayed the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation.
Maloney said she found the latest disclosure disturbing.
“The National Archives has confirmed to the Oversight Committee that they still have not received all presidential records from the Trump White House,” Maloney said in a statement. “Presidential records are the property of the American people, and it is outrageous that these records are still missing 20 months after former President Trump left office.”