Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall explained the Archives' role in the battle over Trump's White House records, as it receives unwelcome threats and praise from the public.
National Archives and Records Administration Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall sent a memo last week to all NARA employees to update them on the status of former President Donald Trump's presidential records and clarified the Archives' role in the probe so far.
Wall explained that her letter to Corcoran addressed the White House's request"on behalf of the Department of Justice" that NARA give the FBI access to the 15 boxes returned to the Archives by Trump,"so that the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community could examine them." She went on to say that when NARA receives requests like this, it gives the former president a chance"to review the responsive records for constitutionally based privileges.
In her letter to Corcoran, she informed him"that the time period for review had expired and that 'an assertion of executive privilege against the incumbent president under these circumstances would not be viable,'" because there was"no precedent for an assertion of executive privilege by a former Presidentto prevent the latter from obtaining from NARA Presidential records belonging to the Federal Government.
She also reiterated several points from a statement by former Archivist David Ferriero, noting that the Archives"did not visit or 'raid' the Mar-a-Lago property; that representatives of President Trump informed us that they were continuing to search for additional Presidential records that belong to the National Archives; and that some of the records we received at the end of the Trump Administration included paper records that had been torn up.
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