The National Archives has confirmed that some Trump White House documents were ripped apart by the former president and taped back together by aides, The Washington Post reported, citing three sources with knowledge of the matter.
According to the newspaper, the documents were handed over to the House Select Committee investigating the Trump-fueled storming of the US Capitol on January 6.
In a statement to The Post, the National Archives said that documents turned over from the Trump White House “included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump,” confirming Trump’s unusual habit of ripping up documents that he finds compromising.
The statement said: “White House records management officials during the Trump Administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records. These were turned over to the National Archives at the end of the Trump Administration, along with a number of torn-up records that had not been reconstructed by the White House. The Presidential Records Act requires that all records created by presidents be turned over to the National Archives at the end of their administrations.”
