In the email, Gary Stern wrote, among other things, that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had learned that about two dozen boxes of official presidential documents had been stored in the residential area of the White House during Trump’s final year in office. One of Trump’s lawyers is said to have ordered the documents to be handed over to NARA in the days before the president’s departure in January 2021, but that didn’t happen until the time the email was sent in May 2021.
In his e-mail, Stern noted that at least two documents are unclear where they are; A letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a letter sent to him by Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama at the beginning of his presidency.
Stern made several attempts to track down the documents in the fall of 2021, according to sources who spoke to The Washington Post. Trump would only cooperate after Stern threatened to report the situation to Congress. In January 2022, the former president delivered the first 15 boxes. On Monday, the New York Times announced that about 150 classified documents had been found in it. This was one of the factors that led to the August 8 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
During this procedure and the voluntary handover in June, another 150 classified documents are said to have surfaced.
