WASHINGTON — The Trump White House did not preserve the former president’s social media accounts, the national archivist told Congress on Friday, warning lawmakers that some of the missing records may not be retrievable.
“The Trump Administration did not fully capture, and therefore NARA did not receive, all of the Presidential records created by Trump and White House staff that were posted on social media platforms,” archivist David Ferriero wrote in a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Ferriero said in the letter that he was asking for the committee’s advice as required under the Presidential Records Act when presidential records are destroyed or disposed of without the archivist’s input.
Ferriero also wrote in a separate letter that 15 boxes of Presidential Records recently recovered from former President Donald Trump’s home at the Mar-a-Lago beach club in Palm Beach, Florida, contained classified information, and that the Archives has been in touch with the Justice Department. Ferriero’s letter confirmed earlier media reports about possible classified information found there, and reports that some presidential records had been torn into pieces.
