The staff at the 'overly political' National Archives refused to help former President Donald Trump pack up his office in the final days of his administration, according to the former president, and their absence caused him to unknowingly take...
Mr. Trump’s lawyers made the charge in a letter to Congress that seeks a legislative remedy to end the Justice Department’s investigation into the former president’s possession of boxes of documents that the National Archives said belong to them and include some classified material.
The classified documents probe is one of several investigations and lawsuits targeting the former president, who is seeking a second term in the White House. The classified documents investigation may be the trickiest to prosecute. Three months after the FBI conducted an unprecedented raid of Mr. Trump’s Palm Beach home, seizing boxes of documents that were taken from the White House, aides to President Biden announced that he, too, was in possession of classified documents in several unsecured locations that he had removed from Congress and the White House during his time as a senator and vice president.
Mr. Parlatore and his co-counsel, Jim Trusty, reviewed boxes of material that Mr. Trump sent to the National Archives in January 2022, when he was initially working to cooperate with NARA on returning some of the items. The organization of the material, Mr. Trump’s lawyers believe, “indicates that the White House staff simply swept all documents from the President’s desk and other areas into boxes, where they have resided ever since.
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