The U.S. Department of Justice rejected a request from the House Oversight Committee to provide additional details on the fifteen boxes of records that former President Donald Trump took to his residence in Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, in the state of Florida.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Peter Hyun wrote in a letter, sent to the chair of the oversight committee, stating that the Department of Justice has asked the National Archives to refrain from disclosing information about these boxes with the aim of “protecting the integrity of ongoing work”, such as has reported the US network CNN.
Last week, the House Oversight Committee accused the Department of Justice of obstructing the delivery of these boxes, which former President Trump wrongly took to his Mar-a-Lago mansion after leaving office.
The chairman of this commission, Democrat Carolyn Maloney, alleged that the Justice Department was “obstructing” the investigation they are conducting against the former White House tenant by not allowing the National Archives to share information about all the material that was taken to his Florida mansion.
Maloney referred to the alleged blockade they are facing in a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, and reminded him that the commission has jurisdiction over the Presidential Records Act and is trying to determine the full extent of Trump's possible wrongdoing.
The National Archives and Records Administration confirmed last February that Trump delivered fifteen boxes full of files, some of which contained confidential information, after improperly taking them to his luxurious mansion in Mar-a-Lago, a few days after this commission initiated a investigation for these facts.
At the end of March, a US judge ruled that the former president “most likely” committed a serious crime by trying to pressure his vice president to obstruct Congress and annul his electoral defeat on January 6, 2021.
The claim is contained in a ruling that determined that the House committee investigating the deadly attack on the United States Capitol has the right to see emails written to Trump by one of his then lawyers, John Eastman.
The judge said that Trump's plan to annul his defeat amounted to a “coup d'état.”
(With information from Europa Press)
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