Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) improperly removed boxes of documents and other items from the White Houseincluded Letters from North Korean leader Kim Jong-unThe Washington Post reports this Monday.
The US National Archives and Records Administration. recovered in January those boxes that were in the Trump residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida), three sources familiar with what happened told the newspaper.
When they leave power American presidents must deliver to the National Archives all letters, notes, emails and other written communications that are related to your official duties as agent, for its preservation.
The fact that Trump took those boxes to Florida raises doubts about whether he may have violated the Presidential Records Actwhich requires the preservation of those documents, although the capacity of the National Archives of penalizing those who break the law is very limited.
The boxes contained gifts, letters from world leaders and other correspondenceaccording to Trump advisers who spoke to the Post on condition of anonymity and who They denied that the former president acted with malice.
Among the documents were correspondence that he sent North Korean leader during the bilateral thaw process, and which Trump once described as “love letters”; as well as a letter left in the Oval Office by his predecessor, Barack Obama (2009-2017).
take those boxes it was not the only problem that Trump has raised to the National Archives: the former president often tore up official documentswhich were sent to that US agency still in pieces or glued, indicates the Post.
Some of those torn and then cellophane-wrapped documents are among those received last month by the House committee investigating the January 2021 assault on the Capitol, according to the newspaper.
Although all recent former presidents have violated the Presidential Records Act in some way, the number of documents Trump took appears to be unprecedented. according to the sources consulted by the newspaper.
The law provides penalties of up to three years in jail for those who act maliciously when it comes to hiding or destroying documents, but proving that is difficult and the experts consulted by the Post see it as very unlikely that there will be consequences of what happened for Trump. (I)
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