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By: Real America News Updated 01 Oct 2022, 22: 00 pm EDT
The National Archives reported that certain presidential records from the administration of Donald Trump are still pending delivery, citing information that some White House employees used unofficial electronic systems to conduct official business, according to CNN.
The National Administration Archives and Records (NARA) sent a letter on Friday to the chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney, stating that she has been unable to obtain records of several former officials and that she will continue to seek the return of presidential records of former Trump administration officials.
But, “while there is no easy way to establish absolute responsibility, we know that we have custody of everything we should,” NARA said.
Last month, Maloney requested in a letter that NARA seek “personal certification” from former President Donald Trump that he turned over all presidential records that he “redacted illegally” from the White House.
The Archives letter is the latest development in NARA’s years-long quest to recover all the records that belong to the federal government that were created during the Trump administration.
NARA’s problems with Trump and former officials of his administration led earlier this year to the return of boxes and envelopes full of records by former administration officials and lawyers.
NARA’s findings in one of those collections prompted a Justice Department investigation into the mishandling of classified records and an August search of Mar-a-Lago, the beach club in Trump in Florida.
In its letter to Maloney, NARA cited a lawsuit filed last summer by the Justice Department asking a judge to order Trump’s former White House trade adviser, Peter Navarro, to return federal records that the Department of Justice says that it was stored improperly after leaving the administration.
“It is outrageous that these records remain unaccounted for 17 months after former President Trump left office,” Maloney said Saturday. “Former President Trump and his senior staff have shown a complete disregard for the rule of law and our national security by failing to return presidential records as required by law.”
According to the law of Presidential Records, records and phone calls related to official government functions.