Recently, the National Archives and Records Administration sent a letter to the House
Oversight Committee, letting the committee know that they're still missing a lot of documents
from not just Donald Trump, but from Trump's staff, from former officials with the Trump
administration. They walked off with a bunch of crap that we are supposed to have in our
possession, and we don't have it yet. Let me read this. The NA has been unable to obtain
records from non-official electronic messaging accounts as members of the former administration
did not copy or forward messages as in emails to their official electronic messaging accounts
as required by law.
And the reason that the National Archive sent this information over to the House Oversight
Committee was basically just an FYI to let them know that they might have to take some
action. They may have to go and get the documents and records and electronic devices themselves.
In other words, the National Archives is just letting the House know we're probably gonna
have to send the FBI to do this. In the letter they specifically say that, you know, we may
get the Department of Justice involved, which of course would mean the FBI is gonna go confiscate
these things. They may try to issue some subpoenas. You know, they may try all other things before
sending the FBI out there to go on a wild goose chase for all of these documents that
are missing. But why bother with all of that, right? Why does, why, why? Why do, why do
you have to sit here and wait?
The people who have this stuff, as you said in your letter, violated law, they broke the
law by not doing the things they were supposed to do. So why do you need to even sit there
and twiddle your thumbs and think, Oh, well maybe we should do this. Maybe we're gonna
do that. We don't know. We'll do it, right? J just do it. Go to the doj. Now, why did
you send this letter to the House Oversight Committee instead of just sending it to the
doj, telling them like, Hey, these people walked off with stuff that wasn't theirs.
They didn't copy the communications like they were supposed to. They were using private
messaging apps like they're not supposed to. All of this is illegal. Give us authority
to send the FBI looking for these people. We want the documents, we want the electronic
records. We want cell phones if we have to, but this is our material. It belongs to the
federal government. And these people walked away with it. And that's not cool .
It's not legal either, but you did it for Trump. Why not do it for all of these other
yahoos out there?
I mean, that's what really drives me crazy about all this is like, Oh, well we know because
our records indicate things were created, but we never got them. We know they exist.
We know these people walked off with them. We know the people who have them. Wonderful.
Sounds like you've already done half the battle. The next battle is sending that information
to the fbi, sending them to their house. Simple as that. But National Archives of course,
is not a a political department. They don't wanna be seen as political. They just say,
Look, we got a job to do. We're we're, we're basically librarians here. It's our job to
make sure everything comes back home so that we have it in case the government needs it
in the future. If we can't do that, because all of these Trump people, including Trump
himself, cuz they've also said like, we know he's got more.
The DOJ recently came out and said, We're pretty sure he is got more and we may have
to do something wonderful. So just do it right? It's your material. It belongs to the federal
government, meaning it actually belongs to the people of the United States, right? So
go get our crap back. Don't sit there and foot around it and act like, Oh, well we want
everybody to know that we're not trying to do. Just do it for the love of God and get
it over with. And if people broke the law, charge them or move on. That's what needs
to happen. At this point, this document scandal is absolutely getting out of hand. The Trump
people know cuz they've seen what happened to Donald. If they wanted to give the the
materials back, they would've already done it. They're not gonna do it willingly. You're
gonna have to go there and force them to give it back. They know you want it, but they're
not giving it. So you gotta go and take it.