Some of Trump’s White House files delivered to the committee on January 6 were defrauded
The Archives, in response to questions from CNN, said that “some of the President Trump records received by the National Archives and Records Administration included paper records that were torn up by former President Trump. .”
The agency did not explain how officials learned that former President Donald Trump himself tore up the files, but the Archives pointed to earlier reports that White House records managers had to tape them. documents torn under Trump.
“These documents were turned over to the National Archives at the end of the Trump Administration, along with a number of torn records that have not yet been reconstructed by the White House,” the Archives said in a statement. dad. “The Presidential Records Act requires that all records created by presidents be turned over to the National Archives at the end of their administration.”
A spokesman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A spokesman for the selection committee declined to comment.
Committee members said they were still in the process of poring over hundreds of pages of documents as part of the release. While they did not reveal everything the documents reveal, court filings show documents including White House call logs, visitor logs, drafts of speeches and three notes. Handwritten by top advisors.
The commission said the documents were an important part of its investigation.
“We’re happy that the Supreme Court ruled in our favor that we can access them,” Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who chairs the panel, told CNN earlier. this month when the committee began receiving the documents it requested. “And we expect the National Archives to turn them over to us.”