The National Archives and Records Administration said some records from Donald Trump’s time in the White House are still missing.
In a letter to the House Oversight Committee, Archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote: “While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should.”
Wall said some members of the Trump White House used unofficial messaging accounts to conduct official business and did not copy or forward those messages to their official accounts.
The National Archives has been able to recover some of these messages from former officials in the Trump administration while others have not yet handed them over.
The Justice Department sued former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro in August to force him to turn over emails from his tenure in the White House after he signaled he was unwilling to hand them over voluntarily without a grant of immunity.
The Department of Justice and the FBI have recovered over 11,000 government records from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida since he left office, including some marked top secret and classified.
