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National Archives Still Missing Some Trump Administration Records

3 Oct 2022 2:02 PM | Anonymous

The National Archives has still not recovered all the presidential records that should have been turned over at the end of the Trump administration, according to a new letter to Congress from the acting archivist.

"We do know that we do not have custody of everything we should," Debra Steidel Wall, acting archivist of the United States, said in her letter to Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., suggesting that former officials had still not turned over electronic messages of official business done on personal accounts.

Wall's letter was a response to a Sept. 13 request from Maloney seeking an "urgent review" of "whether presidential records remain unaccounted for and potentially in the possession of the former president."

Wall said the National Archives and Records Administration "would consult with the Department of Justice" on whether "to initiate an action for the recovery of records unlawfully removed."

You can read more in an article by Benjamin Siegel published in the ABC News web site at: https://abcn.ws/3SQCHYf.


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  • 3 Oct 2022 10:18 PM | Anonymous
    This sounds like a Democrat archivist who is being pushed to cause more problems. Funny that all of a sudden they are saying they do not have all the papers, yet they have had2 years but now trying to stall President Trump from running another term. Get a life you dems.
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  • 4 Oct 2022 7:54 AM | Anonymous
    What does this (and all the other Trump bashing articles) have to do with genealogy? Keep politics out of this, "Anonymous".
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    • 12 Oct 2022 3:32 PM | Anonymous
      ---> What does this ... have to do with genealogy?

      It concerns the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, an agency used frequently by genealogists.
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  • 4 Oct 2022 9:59 AM | Anonymous
    Dick, thank you for this update. As a college trained historian, retired US Army officer and genealogist for most of my life, I full well understand the importance of the records and what goes on with them in the National Archives for all of us. I do not believe that this was a political posting, until "Anonymous", who does not have the "intestinal fortitude" to use his or her own name, made it that way.
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  • 4 Oct 2022 3:20 PM | Anonymous
    This is not politics; this is a federal law on the preservation of Presidential Records that has not been followed by the former administration. It is the archivist's duty as a public employee to uphold the law.
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