Trump tore up records turned over to House Capitol attack committee

Former US president Donald Trump has ripped some of the White House records turned over to the House committee investigating the Capitol riot on January 6, according to the National Archives.

Last month, the Archives turned over more than 700 documents concerning the Capitol attack to the House committee. The documents include diaries, schedules, handwritten notes, speeches and remarks.

The Supreme Court rejected the former Republican president’s attempt to prevent the National Archives from turning them over to Congress.

In a statement, the Archives said, “Some of the Trump presidential records received by the National Archives and Records Administration included paper records that had been torn up by former president Trump.

“These were turned over to the National Archives at the end of the Trump administration, along with a number of torn-up records that had not been reconstructed by the White House. The Presidential Records Act requires that all records created by presidents be turned over to the National Archives at the end of their administrations.”

Politico, in 2018, talked to Solomon Lartey, a records management analyst, who spent time “armed with rolls of clear Scotch tape … sift[ing] through large piles of paper and put[ting] them back together … ‘like a jigsaw puzzle’.”

Lartey and another staffer that taped records were fired by the White House in the same year, they said summarily.

Lartey said, “They told [Trump] to stop doing it. He didn’t want to stop.”

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On Tuesday, Trump said the committee should investigate why his own vice president did not reject the Electoral College results for the 2020 presidential election.

Mike Pence, the former president said, should be investigated because he “did not send back the votes for recertification or approval, in that it has now been shown that he clearly had the right to do so!”

Pence concluded that he did not have the right to reject Electoral College results, and resisted pressure from Trump to do so.

Trump also said that violent riot could have been avoided on Jan. 6 if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had acted on his advice and increased security at the Capitol building that day.

“If it [Electoral College votes] were sent back to the legislators, or if Nancy Pelosi, who is in charge of Capitol security, had taken my recommendation and substantially increased security, there would have been no ‘January 6’ as we know it!” Trump said.

“Therefore, the Unselect Committee should be investigating why Nancy Pelosi did such a poor job of overseeing security and why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval, in that it has now been shown that he clearly had the right to do so!” he added.

More than 400 people have been charged in connection to the deadly protest by Trump's supporters, who were trying to prevent Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's electoral college victory.

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