{O/C} A House Oversight Committee requested today that more information be provided in relation to Donald Trump's handling of classified White House documents.
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The chairwoman of the Oversight Committee sought additional documents today from the National Archives to assist with its investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of White House classified records as the committee expands its probe.
In a letter to the National Archives, chairwoman and Democrat Carolyn Maloney requested a detailed description of the contents of the 15 boxes recovered from Trump's inner sanctum of Mar-a-Lago, including their level of classification, uniquely available from the National Archives.
The probe reportedly entails documents bearing out the fact paper was flushed down a toilet in the White House under wraps.
Maloney released a statement saying the American people deserve to know the extent to which the former President hid and destroyed federal records.
The Committee is also pledging these abuses will not happen again.
The National Archives said in a letter to Maloney last week that classified information had been found among the material Trump took with him when he left office last year.
The latest revelations also cited Trump's failure to turn over certain social media records as well as communications records between White House aides.
Trump has repeatedly claimed the records had been turned over as part of an ordinary and routine process, denouncing efforts by Democrats to trigger this probe as a scam.
Maloney, who expressed grave concern in December 2020 about the Trump administration not complying with the Presidential Records Act, has indicated her commitment to uncovering Trump's mishandling of the documents.
Despite the Presidential Records Act, Trump may still contend that, as the President, he had the ultimate authority to, by hook or by crook, declassify the presidential documents.
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