Donald Trump took letters from former President Barack Obama and the Kim Jong North Korean leader when he left the White House, the National Archives on Monday announced, which he had to go find them to his residence in Florida.
By completing your mandate, the presidents of the United States must send all their emails, letters and other work documents to the national archives for their conservation.
But the Republican billionaire decided to take several boxes to his residence of Mar-A-Lake, in Florida.
In them there were, among other things, gifts from foreign leaders, a letter that left his predecessor Barack Obama and others written by Kim Jong a.
Donald Trump, first US president in office in having met a member of the Kim dynasty, maintained an epistolary relationship with the North Korean leader.
“He wrote me beautiful cards, they are magnificent letters, we have fallen in love,” said the president to his followers in September 2018.
But in mid-January, national archives “organized the repatriation of 15 boxes containing presidential documents” from the property of Donald Trump in Florida to Washington, according to the files in a statement sent to AFP.
“These documents should have been sent to the archives by the White House at the end of the Trump administration, in January 2021,” they said.
But some documents have not yet been recovered.
According to the files, “representatives of the expression continue to look for presidential records.”
Last week, the national archives revealed that the former president had the habit of breaking some of his work documents, even though he is prohibited.
“Among the presidential documents received by the national archives were paper documents that had broken Trump’s Former Speaker,” said AFP.
“Staff management officers of the White House” had “stuck with adhesive tape” some of the leaves, they added.
