Former President Donald Trump (click here) took several boxes of official White House records and memorabilia that should have been handed over to the National Archives to Mar-a-Lago instead, The Washington Post reports.
The National Archives has so far "arranged transport" to recover 15 boxes of documents from Trump's Florida resort and winter residence, the agency confirmed in a Monday statement. Under the Presidential Records Act, Trump should have given those records over to the agency upon leaving office.
The Archives added that Trump and his staff are "continuing to search for additional Presidential records that belong to the National Archives."
The items that Trump improperly took to Florida with him include correspondence from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, with whom Trump said he exchanged "beautiful" love letters while in office, and a letter that former President Barack Obama left Trump in 2017, according to The Post....
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While House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans vowed to investigate the Department of Justice over the search, Vice President Mike Pence issued a tweet expressing his "concern" over the incident.
"I share the deep concern of millions of Americans over the unprecedented search of the personal residence of President Trump," Pence tweeted.
Pence, who like Trump is considering a 2024 presidential run, also tweeted that some FBI agents "were found to be acting on political motivation" during the Trump administration....
Former president Donald Trump (click here) said Monday that the FBI had raided his Mar-a-Lago Club and searched his safe — activity related to an investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents, according to two people familiar with the probe....