Washington: Four days before the end of Donald Trump’s term as president, a White House aide was shocked when he peeped into the Oval Office. All the personal photographs of the President were still lying behind the desk as if nothing had changed. It was a guarantee that his final hours in the White House would be very hectic. The boxes were brought to pack items used by aides and personal aides of President Donald Trump. But the documents were scattered and the boxes stood almost empty.
According to a New York Times news report, when Trump finally realized that his time was up, the papers he had submitted to his office for the past several months were filled in boxes. About two dozen of those boxes were not sent to the National Archives. His aides also took with them letters from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, which were given at the end of Trump’s term.
Where is all that material now, it is not clear? Clearly, handling government documents was a difficult problem for Trump. Along with this was his reluctance to give up power. The move to refuse to return government documents collected while in office has sparked a potentially damaging and wholly urgent legal battle. In which former President Trump and some of his aides are feared to be trapped.
Whereas Trump’s last chief of staff Mark Meadows was already told by the White House counsel’s office that the contents of about two dozen boxes should be sent to the archives. Some of those boxes are those containing letters from Kim and some documents that were marked as highly confidential. Despite this, he was sent to Florida. There he had been lying inside Trump’s luxurious residence Mar-a-Lago for the last 19 months.
