Archives Denies Trump Referral Connected to Democrats

“The National Archives is denying Republican accusations that its decision to refer Donald Trump’s handling of classified records to the Justice Department had anything to do with an inquiry from a top House Democrat,” Politico reports.

“House Republicans have been raising questions over the timing of the referral, which occurred on Feb. 9 — the same day House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) wrote to the agency to raise questions about Trump’s handling of sensitive documents that he retained at his Mar-a-Lago estate. But that timing is ‘entirely coincidental,’ Acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote in a letter to congressional Republicans on Tuesday.”