US house to investigate whether Trump broke law in handling of documents
by Hugo Lowell and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#5W012)
Panel asks National Archives to turn over communications about missing and destroyed records relevant to Capitol attack
The House oversight committee on Thursday opened an investigation into potential violations of the Presidential Records Act by Donald Trump, after he retained and destroyed records relevant to the 6 January insurrection.
The panel asked the National Archives to turn over communications between the former president and the agency about missing and destroyed records, as well as a description of materials in boxes of records retrieved from Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago last month.
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