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House committee asks National Archives to review Trump storage unit

Rep. Carolyn Maloney says the storage facility and other properties ‘may contain presidential records that were not the focus of the search and therefore have not been turned over to the federal government’

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Updated December 13, 2022 at 3:06 p.m. EST|Published December 13, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. EST
Workers load boxes into a truck outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex on Jan. 14, 2021. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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The House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the National Archives on Tuesday requesting a review to determine whether former president Donald Trump has retained any additional presidential records at his storage facility in Florida.

The request from the committee’s chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), follows a report from The Washington Post that at least two items marked classified were found by an outside team hired by Trump to search a storage unit, along with at least two of his properties, after his legal team was pressed by a federal judge to attest that it had fully complied with a May grand jury subpoena to turn over all materials bearing classified markings.