U.S.A. Survey in Congress for Presidential Administration Trump Data · Global Voices

A House of Representatives commission is investigating whether former President Donald Trump violated the law on presidential data, as boxes of presidential data were discovered at his residence in Florida and according to a press report, he had destroyed documents while in office.

Supervisor Commission Chairman Caroline Maloney said in a statement Thursday that it was “and worried that this data was not given to the National Archives and Data Administration immediately at the end of former President Trump's administration mandate and it appears they were issued by the White House.

Democrat lawmaker Malone sent a letter to archiver David Ferrero, requesting information about 15 boxes of data that the National Archives received at the residence of former President Trump Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida State.

The law on presidential data envisions that documents and records of a incumbent president and his personnel be preserved in archives, and an outgoing president is responsible for handing over documents to the National Archives at the end of the mandate.

The Supervision Commission is demanding that access be given to communications between the National Archives and Trump aides regarding the missing boxes and information on their contents. Maloney has demanded that this information be given by the end of next week.

The data is important for each presidency, but those of former President Trump take on special importance, as they are at the centre of another House of Representatives investigation into the January 6th 2021 violent attack on the Capitol, aimed at preventing incumbent President Joe Biden's victory. Trump, a Republican, failed in an effort to keep some White House documents confidential, a case that reached the Supreme Court.

The former president said in a statement that after “of co-operative and respectful spirit”, the National Archives carried out transport from Mar-a-Lago “boxes containing Presidential Records in accordance with the Presidential Data Law. ”

“Documents were given easily and without conflict and on very friendly grounds,” said Trump in the statement, adding that the data would one day become part of the Donald J. Trump.

There are concerns that Mr. Trump was eliminating data before leaving office, and the House of Representatives' supervisor panel presented these concerns to the archiver in December 2020, at the end of Trump's mandate.

The newspaper “Washington Post” recently reported that President Trump had “destroyed” and sensitive documents, and others that were routine and that the archive referred the case to the Department of Justice to investigate whether the former president violated the Data Law.

The Justice Department has not commented. A reference to possible prosecution by a federal agency or Congress does not mean that the Department of Justice is likely to press charges or even agree to investigate the case.

The National Archive admitted earlier this week that Trump's representatives had collaborated with him and had found data “that had not been transferred to the National Archive at the end of Trump” mandate.

The agency enabled documents to be transported to Washington.

The archive office said representatives of the former president are continuing to request additional data belonging to archives.

“There is no doubt that there is a need for caution and vigilance for accurate documentation, data management practices, data storage and timely delivery of them to the National Archives at the end of an 87x1> administration, Ferrero said. “Your files and data matter. ”/voa