The Washington Post reported Monday that multiple White House record boxes that were improperly kept at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property have been retrieved by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
According to The Post, the boxes reportedly contained important records of communication, gifts and letters from world leaders, which is “a violation of the Presidential Records Act.”
The newspaper added that the boxes retrieved from the Florida estate included correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as well as a letter from former President Obama to Trump.
A source told Washington Post that white that recent administrations have all had some Presidential Records Act violations, the transfer to Mar-a-Lago was “out of the ordinary… NARA has never had that kind of volume transfer after the fact like this.”
As noted by the newspaper, “the Presidential Records Act, which was put in place following the Watergate scandal, requires administrations to document and maintain records of the White House decision-making process.”
The new development comes just a week after the National Archives and Records Administration handed over some Trump White House documents to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection that were reportedly torn up and taped back together.
