“Did I ever see him tear up notes? I don’t know what the documents were but there [was] tearing,” Luna testified to the panel investigating last year’s Capitol riot, according to …
An aide to former President Donald Trump told the House Jan. 6 committee earlier this year that he saw the commander-in-chief “tearing” up documents, according to a report.
The Presidential Records Act requires that presidential documents be preserved and given to the National Archives at the end of a president’s time in office. The leaked audio files also reveal that Luna told House investigators that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told him not to enter the room ahead of a meeting with state Republican legislators who wanted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Luna reportedly had access to the president during the tumultuous final weeks of his term and was in charge of Oval Office operations.Luna told investigators that he wasn’t quite sure why and when Meadows allegedly made the remark.
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